Sam Omatseye and Uwem Akpan have more than one thing in common. They are both writers and they both have...
Five Jordan, a new arts for social development collective, was formally launched on the 31st of January 2020 at an event...
Before Nigeria’s Independence in 1960, diverse literatures had thrived in the local languages. Pita Nwana, the author of Omenuko, blazed...
Airplane selfies are a tacky younger sister said to me. Don’t post that. I shelved the offending picture that would...
Many critics across the globe scoff at contemporary poetry. In an April 2, 2000 Sunday Times of London review of...
Dr. Stanley Nkwachikwelumamaya Macebuh was a rare breed in the freshest sense of the term, a charge of fine electricity...
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my business of staying alive which includes going into...
(This keynote speech was delivered at the ANA OYO Reading of February 1, 2020.) Introduction Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,...
You always remember your first time. Mine was on The Light, Bez’s 2019 album. An interlude of ethereal percussion on...
Crickets are chirpin’ the water is high There’s a soft cotton dress on the line hangin’ dry Window wide open...
For many decades in America, people used to ask each other: “Where were you when you heard JFK was shot?”...
A photograph is both documentation and meditation. Documentation of a time, a person, a place and an occurrence but more to...
