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Literary Essays
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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?
In the last months before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown I chanced upon the autobiography of…
As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of African Studies, University…
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my business of staying…
Sam Omatseye and Uwem Akpan have more than one thing in common. They are both…
2021 has come and gone and with headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic, many have described…
Writing has always been a pleasure. Even as a boy at school I looked forward…
Let me begin by thanking Toyin Akinosho, Jahman Anikulapo and the rest of the Lagos…
The sky is not high enough for you to leap but because the society thinks…
His baritone was like no other. Deep, obviously. Rumbling and tightly controlled so that he…