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The hunger that made Tunisia’s Mohammed Bouazizi to set himself on fire, thus sparking off the Arab Spring, is an everyday Nigerian nightmare now... Anything can happen because one…
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  IT’s a terrible Nigerian fate that every so-called democratic election is delivered like a ticking time bomb primed to explode with fatal menace. The unfathomable…
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'Now that Agbo Areo who initiated the phenomenal Pacesetters Series has passed away, I make bold to stress that any Nigerian publisher who starts such a series today will make a mighty…
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'There is no argument whatsoever that Things Fall Apart has proven to be the single most important piece of literature out of Africa. The bewildering aspect of the matter is that the…
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'Toni Kan is that one writer who is at home with business, advertising, public relations, and big money, which is why as the quintessential poor poet I remain the longest-involved…
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REVIEW: Sun Ra: Space. Music. Myth by Tam Fiofori; Published by SUN ARTS: BEP, Lagos, Nigeria; 2022; 416pp THE American jazz musician Sun Ra was larger than life and death in his…
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'Greg Mbajiorgu has singularly established himself as the go-to authority in solo performance in African theatre. The Power of One: Anthology of Nigerian Solo Plays breaks bold ground…
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OURS was a meeting of minds on the OP-ED pages of The Guardian in the 1980s. He signed off his articles as “Motor-Park Economist” while I signed off my pieces as “Peasant Theatre…
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'At 73, Odia Ofeimun has an encyclopaedic mind that is as alert as ever. He still commits all his hours to just causes... Let’s toast to the health of the master poet and indefatigable…
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' 'What the next President of Nigeria needs to do is to organize a proper national conference. The country should be delineated into constituencies for the election of the…
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