As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge today, 16th September,...
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.
Dr. Stanley Nkwachikwelumamaya Macebuh was a rare breed in the freshest sense of the term, a charge of fine electricity...
“Apparitions of faces in a crowd Petals on a wet black bough” – Ezra Pound How does one paint a...
It is quite common to celebrate Nigerians who are loud on noise but very shallow in sublime achievement. The Nigerians...
Professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi belongs to the class of people who are larger than life and death. When news filtered...
For many decades in America, people used to ask each other: “Where were you when you heard JFK was shot?”...
In the last months before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown I chanced upon the autobiography of Edison Arantes do Nascimento in...
Very few news items have dominated the Nigerian media space as much as the dramatic termination of Onyeka Nwelue’s association...
thelagosreview.ng is seeking insightful, poignant, detailed, and well-written essays in which the writer expresses his/her/their motive for relocation or migration and the effect of that movement on their craft.
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
Sometimes, it is just right to forget birthdays, Christmases and anniversaries and celebrate everyday people who do extraordinary things consistently....
