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Driving in Lagos 10 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
One of the most problematic obstacles to driving anywhere in Nigeria is the process of obtaining a driver’s license. Living in Lagos adds an additional layer of having to compete with one of about two...
What is Your Name? Video and Dance 30 Jul 2013 | 12:39 pm
Here is a beautiful video by Femi Kayode Amogunla on names and contemporary attacks against it by ignorance and amnesia. Also, poetry, drums, and dance. Read more about the artist here. Related Posts
No, Not “America”, but Love – A Review 20 Jun 2013 | 07:15 pm
Here are my thoughts on the final story on the Caine Prize shortlist for 2013: Chinelo Okparanta’s America. Thoughts on earlier stories are here: Bayan Layi, Miracle, Foreign Aid and Whispering Trees....
This Weekend: A Blood Intervention 14 Jun 2013 | 01:34 am
A couple of years ago, December 4, 2009, precisely, I wrote a blogpost in which I lamented a discriminatory practice in the blood donation system on the American campus where I was working then a visi...
Fledgling Whispers of a Story – A Review 9 Jun 2013 | 12:06 am
This week, I discuss my thoughts on Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Whispering Trees, the fourth story on the shortlist of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Many other bloggers are participating in wh...
Amusing the Muse 7 Jun 2013 | 03:49 pm
Here are photos taken at the exhibition of photos and paintings by Nigerian artist Victor Ehikhamenor. The exhibition, titled Amusing the Muse, took place between April 27 and May 31, 2013, at Temple ...
The Travails of Logan – A Review of “Foreign Aid” 2 Jun 2013 | 05:12 am
Here are my thoughts on the third story on the Caine Prize shortlist: Foreign Aid by Pede Hollist ___________ I began reading this story with trepidation, and a worry that after reading Elnathan John’...
Losing a Faith You Never Had – A Review of “Miracle” 26 May 2013 | 08:39 pm
This week, as part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the second story: Tope Folarin’s Miracle, first published in the Transi...
The Children of “Bayan Layi” 19 May 2013 | 09:12 pm
As part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the first story: Elnathan John’s Bayan Layi, first published at http://www.percont...
The 2013 Caine Prize Shortlist 15 May 2013 | 09:19 pm
Out of this year’s five shortlisted stories for the annual Caine Prize for Writing, four of the stories are from Nigeria. This is unprecedented in the history of the organization. According to the ann...
