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I have never given serious thought to how writers of crime and...
I met Benjamin Zephaniah, once, in Lagos... He was tall, dreadlocked, animated and charming. His British accent had a tinge of the Caribbean twang and as a young poet and writer; it was as always a pleasure to meet a celebrated writer.
Jamie Foxx emerged from months of seclusion after facing a mysterious medical...
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After a lavish puff of perfume at home, I made it for the African literary festival, Oxford; the brainchild of the entrancing Onyeka Nwelue – the ousted visiting scholar and...
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...
On July 1, 2002, I moved into a modest 3-room office on the 3rd Floor of Bankers’ House in Victoria Island, as Managing Director/CEO of Platform Petroleum Limited. The space...
When Afrobeat is mentioned, the late iconoclast Fela naturally comes to mind....
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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 contentious politics of digital literary networks and communities, illuminate how the toxic polarisation of a social media culture...
