Many critics across the globe scoff at contemporary poetry. In an April 2, 2000 Sunday Times of London review of...
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
London is dreary in September — but then when is it not? The weather exerts itself quickly enough. When Dami...
You always remember your first time. Mine was on The Light, Bez’s 2019 album. An interlude of ethereal percussion on...
A photograph is both documentation and meditation. Documentation of a time, a person, a place and an occurrence but more to...
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my business of staying alive which includes going into...
People migrate in different ways too; there are the ones that move with credentials in hand and hope in the pocket – these ones are looking for the fabled greener pastures. Before they set out, they would have probably called a friend to beg for a spot on their couch for a few weeks
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.
“Apparitions of faces in a crowd Petals on a wet black bough” – Ezra Pound How does one paint a...
A landmark event such as this global TV adaptation of Things Fall Apart definitely commands consummate critical attention, with some critics arguing in a nativist manner that a native Igbo actor ought to play the role of Okonkwo! Well, William Shakespeare’s plays are acted all over the world by actors from every part of the universe.
Ugochukwu Terrence Odenigbo, whose stage name is TerryTheVoice grew up on the same street, where ‘Fantastic Man’ William Onyeabor lived...
As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge today, 16th September,...
