I chose this title, because of the beauty of it. I was...
He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with...
Many critics across the globe scoff at contemporary poetry. In an April 2, 2000 Sunday Times of London review of Jonathan Bates “The Song of the Earth”, critic Bryan Appleyard...
We received this comment in the mail. We were going to approve...
Last week, we published a review of Brymo’s latest album, Yellow, in...
My week has been long. Deadlines. Events. Traffic. Anyone tethered to the Lagos life like me will know that living in Lagos requires a first rate mind and a fetish...
The Lagos Review announces Sneak Peek, a series that provides a space...
Toni Morrison’s books are cultural artefacts. She wrote black with neither equivocation nor apologies.
When they came for the bottles of alcohol, we said nothing, because quaffing alcohol is not a luxury we indulge in. Then they came for barbers accused of giving unholy...
You had tried to picture what Sylt life would be like, but it seemed so different from what you knew that you could not summon a proper mental image of the island, nor island life. Even the googled images did not help
Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon...
And it all seems to have come full circle. The town of Onitsha which was popular for market literature has caught the Nollywood bug. The most popular address on any movie jacket is 51 Iweka Road, Onitsha.
