When a story is stranger than the strangest fiction, it lasts from...
“When Winston was born, lots of fairies swooped down on his cradle...
Because of this, our environment becomes vital to our progress. As a fifteen-year-old, I knew this intuitively, not as I know it now, not theoretically. I knew that my environment was limited in significant ways. It wasn't one for creativity or imagination. It lay at the tail end of cynicism
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, passed away at the age of 87 and was...
learning a language is never just about grammar or vocabulary. It’s about rhythm, tone, cultural context, even body language. French wasn’t just a tool for communication — it reflected how people relate to each other, how they argue, joke, flirt, comfort, and express emotion.
My primary reservation with this binary polarization of gender into victim and villain, this apportionment of blame in Adichie’s literary works is that it almost denies men their humanity. It foists on men this ideological coat of perpetrator of female suffering, and within this paradigm, it becomes strange, almost impossible, to even conceive of men as victims of female cruelty.
Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon...
Lagos is a city of parvenus, nouveaux riches and arrivistes. It has...
I remembered Nigeria in snatches; roofs of houses overlapping each other, lying like broken china in the sun in cities that suffer from insomnia. Storey buildings where churches and plazas are attached like appendages with speakers raised to alarming decibels vying for the right to make you deaf. Noise was a way of life.
Kole Omotoso was my teacher at the then University of Ife, now...
Once again, FirstBank has reaffirmed its position as a champion of arts,...
We launched new series like the Sneak Peak and Migration and the Writer series, we discovered new writers like Precious Nzeakor (who won the Ken Saro Wiwa book review prize at LABAF 2024) and Joseph Jonathan and we ticked pretty much all the boxes we laid out in January.
