The news that came from Johannesburg, South Africa on July 19 was...
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. But for the true devotees of the genre, the easygoing singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader the late Orlando Julius...
Nine debut books were among the 16 novels to make the cut...
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 were you when you heard JFK was shot?” As Nigerian writers and creatives many of us will, many...
Very few news items have dominated the Nigerian media space as much...
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...
Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theatre, fell in love...
If there’s one place filmmakers hope to thrive when it comes to a movie they have worked tirelessly on, it is the box office. They might tell you otherwise, but...
