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The second coming... 16 Aug 2013 | 01:19 am
Reblogged from Ikhide: We sit around this fireplace in the sky that never goes out. We are staring at each other and these words are like the firewood that stokes the fire-of-many-faces. We sit ...
Faux Storms: Niyi Osundare on Achebe, Soyinka, Biafra and fathers 9 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Please read today’s Kabir Alabi Garba’s interview of Professor Niyi Osundare in the Guardian, (Who Begat Literature, August 9, 2013). Ugh! Just when you think that certain issues have been laid to res...
[Guest Blog Post - Kenn Harrow] Bitter Freedoms: The Meeting of Africans and African Americans across the Great Divide 21 Jul 2013 | 03:34 pm
This paper was presented as a keynote address at the third TOYIN FALOLA ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (TOFAC), Theme: Ethnicity, Race, and Place in Africa and the ...
Americanah: Through a looking glass glumly 26 Jun 2013 | 01:38 pm
For you. “Ceiling,” poor thing! There are many good reasons to buy Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie’s publisher should rise and take a bow. Americanah is an ode to editorial excellence...
Guest Blog Post by Emmanuel Iduma: On Travelling… 24 Jun 2013 | 10:17 am
Guest blogger Emmanuel Iduma was born in 1989 in Akure, Nigeria. He studied Law in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and has been called to the Nigerian Bar. He is the co-founder and Managing Edito...
Cowfoot nor be corned beef… 13 Jun 2013 | 05:47 pm
For zazugist… America Police nor go kill me O! Every week for America, we dey do environmental, that is, for night you go put your dustbin outside, for morning, environmental people go come carry am w...
Guest Blog Post by Chielozona Eze: [Book Review] On Afam Akeh’s Letter Home & Biafran Nights 28 May 2013 | 09:51 pm
Book review: Afam Akeh, Letter Home & Biafran Nights. London: SPM Publications, 2012. Price: £9.95 Guest blogger Chielozona Eze is associate professor of English and postcolonial studies at Northeaste...
For NoViolet Bulawayo: We need new names 1 May 2013 | 04:24 pm
Look at them leaving in droves, the children of the land, just look at them leaving in droves. Those with nothing are crossing borders. Those with strength are crossing borders. Those with ambitions a...
Presenting Victor Ehikhamenor’s luscious demons: Amusing the Muse – April 29 – May 31 2013 21 Apr 2013 | 09:22 pm
(Lagos, April 21, 2013) Temple Muse is proud to present Amusing the Muse, an art exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Victor Ehikhamenor, one of Nigeria’s most progressive contemporary artis...
Ominira’s room 9 Apr 2013 | 06:14 pm
Memories of my past, harried dad chasing after you, little one, you with the two teeth, come rushing at me in the cold bluster of England’s faux indifference. How are you, princess? Miss me, do you? I...
