Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon of ancestors. It was on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 the news broke that the revolutionary Kenyan novelist, playwright,...
Perhaps an unsuspecting adherent to Chielozona Eze’s concept of feminist empathy proposed in his book Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature, in Obinna Udenwe’s short story, we...
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.
Last week, I had a long conversation with my parents about funerals. My grandfather would have been 100 years old on November 20th. My aunt, who has been a professor...
In our new series in which writers and creatives of various stripes share with us their anxieties and fears regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, Chika Unigwe, PhD and award winning author...