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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently responded to criticisms that have long trailed her on social media, ranging from her views on trans women to her strained relationship with some younger writers who she...
I did the rather easy math hours ago and realised I had...
I remember when Toni began to write the first draft of The...
St. Peter’s Cathedral Ake was brimful of joyful worshippers that Sunday morning in November 1994. It was not the there-is-fullness-of-joy-in-the-presence-of-God kind of joy, rather there was a palpable sense of...
I was driving on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos when his...
His baritone was like no other. Deep, obviously. Rumbling and tightly controlled...
Ugochukwu Terrence Odenigbo, whose stage name is TerryTheVoice grew up on the same street, where ‘Fantastic Man’ William Onyeabor lived in Enugu. As a child, people didn’t know how famous...
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The Okigbo mystique Sometime in 2015, some young poets undertook a pilgrimage...
Transcript of a Keynote LectureDelivered by Filmmaker, DR. JOANNA LIPPER-March 18th, 2021 Good afternoon. I am honoured to be here today to celebrate iREP’s 10th Anniversary. I want to begin...
