The year is 2021. The day is February 6. Valentine’s day looms....
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.
(In this essay, Bisi Silva, who passed away one year ago, introduces the Modern & Contemporary Art Pavilion of the African Cultural and Design Festival which she curated. May her...
This is the stay-at-home edition. And it’s by no fault of ours....
The lionized singer Bongos Ikwue was the star attraction at the event...
Last week, medic and critic, Wilfred Okiche bemoaned the dwindling quality of music reviews in a tweet. I responded by saying that music reviews are not particularly rewarding, tweets make...
This pandemic has taught me so much about the things that matter...
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.
The Okigbo mystique Sometime in 2015, some young poets undertook a pilgrimage to River Idoto, a muddy-colored river in Ojoto in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. Among them were Chuma Nwokolo,...
(Following the announcement of “Black Magic” as the theme of Ake Festival...
A few days ago, poet and popular music critic, Dami Ajayi, put...
Many of us had that particular neighbour who always had a full stacked CD plate of old Nollywood movies close to the large Panasonic television and loud bass video player...
