Ngugi wa Thiong’o, passed away at the age of 87 and was...
learning a language is never just about grammar or vocabulary. It’s about rhythm, tone, cultural context, even body language. French wasn’t just a tool for communication — it reflected how people relate to each other, how they argue, joke, flirt, comfort, and express emotion.
My primary reservation with this binary polarization of gender into victim and villain, this apportionment of blame in Adichie’s literary works is that it almost denies men their humanity. It foists on men this ideological coat of perpetrator of female suffering, and within this paradigm, it becomes strange, almost impossible, to even conceive of men as victims of female cruelty.
Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon...
Lagos is a city of parvenus, nouveaux riches and arrivistes. It has...
I remembered Nigeria in snatches; roofs of houses overlapping each other, lying like broken china in the sun in cities that suffer from insomnia. Storey buildings where churches and plazas are attached like appendages with speakers raised to alarming decibels vying for the right to make you deaf. Noise was a way of life.
Kole Omotoso was my teacher at the then University of Ife, now...
While this is not a case of Them vs Us, the concern about how the story will represent Nigeria—not just in its grand mythology but in its smaller, more intimate details—is crucial. There is a reason to believe that the portrayal of Nigerian culture in Children of Blood and Bone will be filtered more through external research than through intuitive, lived-in sensibilities.
Once again, FirstBank has reaffirmed its position as a champion of arts, culture, and entertainment through its annual DecemberIssaVybe initiative. This year, the bank brought music lovers an unforgettable Christmas...
We launched new series like the Sneak Peak and Migration and the Writer series, we discovered new writers like Precious Nzeakor (who won the Ken Saro Wiwa book review prize at LABAF 2024) and Joseph Jonathan and we ticked pretty much all the boxes we laid out in January.
Benin City, the historic heart of Nigeria and a symbol of African...
However, the journey toward a more diverse Nollywood is not without challenges. For one, producing niche films, whether supernatural thrillers, sci-fi, or horror, often requires significant technical know-how and financial investment. For instance, a sci-fi film might demand complex visual effects or CGI animation
