Regret – A Poem by Sanya Osha
Regret IAnd what are you all looking atAnd waiting for?You ought to pull offThe great over-coat of your masks!Let every man plant a kissInto the soul of the otherUnder the naked night skies! You girls...
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Sola Osofisan made a name for himself in Nigeria during the 1990s as a multiple award-winning writer, screenwriter and film director. In those early days it was already evident he was cut out for...
View ArticleSlaughtered by Religion: A Review of E.E. Sule’s ‘Sterile Sky’
Title: Sterile Sky Author: E.E. Sule Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd, Essex. Pages: 286 Year: 2012 E.E. Sule has been in the news lately for condemning the “culture heroism” (apologies Ato Quayson)...
View ArticleFollowing Fela
Some books are so badly written that they deserve to be read if only for their sheer ugliness. In this way, a critic has something to sink his/her teeth into. More important, such books demonstrate...
View ArticleChika Unigwe on Modern-day Sex Slavery and the Politics of Belonging
Chika Unigwe, after several years living in Belgium, recently moved to the United States with her family. Author of “Night Dancer” and the well-received “On Black Sisters’ Street” – she talks about the...
View ArticleToyin Falola’s Enchanted Yoruba Universe: An Essay by Sanya Osha
In A Mouth Sweeter than Salt, Toyin Falola brings to ebullient life a vanishing universe of orality in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria, during the height of colonial consolidation. That world is rich,...
View ArticleCecil Rhodes through the Lens of Xenophobia: A Review
A Review of #Rhodes Must Fall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa, by Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, Bamenda, Cameroon, 2016 South African university campuses...
View ArticleHarry Garuba: In Praise of “the Thursday People”
Harry Garuba who passed in February 2020 was a well-known figure on the Nigerian literary scene primarily as a mentor to many budding writers at the University of Ibadan (UI) where he taught for two...
View ArticleThe Mystique of Maxim
(for Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Boroja I, Obi of Ikate, on the occasion of his 60th birthday) “Na poor I poor no bi craze I craze”, the oft –repeated phrase is a defining axiom in Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s text of...
View ArticleOlabiyi Babalola J. Yai: Yoruba Studies Expert and Polymath
Olabiyi Babalola Yai, linguist, cultural critic, philosopher, Yoruba studies expert and distinguished professor passed recently after a brief illness. His death on December 5, 2020, is huge loss to his...
View Article“The artist is a person at a crossroads” – Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Cameroonian Scholar Francis B. Nyamnjoh on Art, Academia, indebtedness, and Borders. In December 2021, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South...
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