In modern Nigerian culture, the “Japa” story is typically framed as a binary: success or tragedy. Salmah Salam Oiza’s debut collection of poems, Foreign in…
The woman as a heroine in the victimisation of social conditioning is a fashionable portrait of the protagonist in contemporary romantic fiction. The reader encounters…
The art of poetry is built on the principle of compression, a demand to say the most with the least. To write poetry is to…
Across many African traditions, the mind is not the sovereign it imagines itself to be. The Yoruba show the delineation of this in the inner…
We are undoubtedly in a time when the pulsating rhythms of Afrobeats and pop dominate Nigerian music charts. There is, therefore, something quietly radical about…
There are weddings—and then there are weddings that rewrite the cultural script. In 2025, Temi Otedola and Mr Eazi managed both. Their union unfolded not…
Some novels arrive like whispers; others break into your consciousness and refuse to leave. Chukwuemeka Famous’ We Will Live Again belongs firmly in the latter…
Every human wanders through different phases in life. Sometimes we drift towards something; other times, something drifts towards us. Whether it is the former or…
I once posited elaborately on the position of Skip Gates—I believe—regarding critical canons and the particularity of looking at works. He argues that all works…
Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey is a show defined by a powerful central idea: the moment a desperate man decides to kill his conscience.…
Dream Count is not the sweeping saga of Adichie’s acclaimed Americanah or the generational epic of Half of a Yellow Sun. Instead, it’s a finely-wrought,…
Blooming Under Bradford Skies is a masterful assemblage of rich works by Nigerian and British writers who have made Bradford their home. Under the literary…
