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I met Benjamin Zephaniah, once, in Lagos... He was tall, dreadlocked, animated and charming. His British accent had a tinge of the Caribbean twang and as a young poet and writer; it was as always a pleasure to meet a celebrated writer.
George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) is a dystopian novel set in the year of its title. It is set in a...
For many decades in America, people used to ask each other: “Where were you when you heard JFK was shot?”...
This might be a good time to ask how did Onyeka Nwelue; university dropout, filmmaker, energetic cultural organizer, “tireless champion of African literature, significant and prolific author” get to Oxford?
As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge today, 16th September,...
Though not well education, TB Joshua had the innate intelligence common to conmen. He could read and anticipate situations correctly, a point made by Paul Agomoh who was his second in command for many years. “He was a genius at making things happen the way he wanted,” Agomoh said in the BBC documentary.
After a lavish puff of perfume at home, I made it for the African literary festival, Oxford; the brainchild of...
Nine debut books were among the 16 novels to make the cut in this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist,...
Very few news items have dominated the Nigerian media space as much as the dramatic termination of Onyeka Nwelue’s association...
In the last months before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown I chanced upon the autobiography of Edison Arantes do Nascimento in...
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my business of staying alive which includes going into...