After a lavish puff of perfume at home, I made it for...
George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) is a dystopian novel set in the year...
The news that came from Johannesburg, South Africa on July 19 was heartrending: Kole Omotoso is dead! The lionised writer, Kole Omotoso, was my teacher at the then University of...
On July 1, 2002, I moved into a modest 3-room office on...
When Afrobeat is mentioned, the late iconoclast Fela naturally comes to mind....
Nine debut books were among the 16 novels to make the cut in this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, announced this week. But what relevance does a gender-exclusive award...
The Uses of Others: Onyeka Nwelue and African Literature in the Age of Cancel Culture — James Yékú
Questions of cancel culture and African literature, in the frameworks of the...
For many decades in America, people used to ask each other: “Where...
Very few news items have dominated the Nigerian media space as much as the dramatic termination of Onyeka Nwelue’s association with the British academic establishment. For days, this sensational news...
This is an intervention I consider very appropriate at this time, following...
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?
Quietude sits well with Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, and calmness is the word for her, but the music was so compelling that she had to stand up and dance. The mellifluous...
