Yesterday I announced that I would unveal my thoughts regarding the IPOB...
”The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” –...
Okot p’Bitek, the great Ugandan poet, author of Song of Lawino, always held court at the bar in the foyer of Oduduwa Hall, the big theatre of the then University...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently responded to criticisms that have long trailed her...
I did the rather easy math hours ago and realised I had...
I remember when Toni began to write the first draft of The Carnivorous City was back in 2009/2010.He’d been talking about writing the quintessential modern Lagos novel. He wanted to...
St. Peter’s Cathedral Ake was brimful of joyful worshippers that Sunday morning...
I was driving on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos when his...
His baritone was like no other. Deep, obviously. Rumbling and tightly controlled so that he could thin it out into a lacquered tenor or hollow it for a deeper booming...
Ugochukwu Terrence Odenigbo, whose stage name is TerryTheVoice grew up on the...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The name itself is magical. Peculiar tone markers, an...
The Okigbo mystique Sometime in 2015, some young poets undertook a pilgrimage to River Idoto, a muddy-colored river in Ojoto in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. Among them were Chuma Nwokolo,...