A few days ago, poet and popular music critic, Dami Ajayi, put...
In our new series in which writers and creatives of various stripes...
It has been almost a month, here, since the shutdown began. It will persist till June in the Washingtone DC area, where I live. It is like living in a...
In our new series in which writers and creatives of various stripes...
Anybody who is able to read this—or, for that matter, who is...
It appears that plagues, historically, surface every other generation and yet we never imagine having to live through one. When news first filtered out of Wuhan that there’s a new...
Wanlov The Kubolor, Ghanaian rapper, songwriter, producer, videographer, and performance artist recently...
It will be recorded in the far-away future that this was the...
I am drinking rum out of a small wine glass. It is so quiet outside. There is, of course, the occasional distant honk, the faint roaring of a neighborhood generator,...
Lagos is a city of parvenus, nouveaux riches and arrivistes. It has...
While the world grapples with the first truly global pandemic in generations,...
There is the wrong notion that Fela as Godfather of social commentary-and-protest lyrics/music in Nigeria, literarily covered all the bases! Yes, he did a huge bit, but on meticulous examination...