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(Lies and the Hail of Bullets #ENDSARS The Story of Lekki Shootings by Survivors, CAPPA, 2021) The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know…
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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things –Seth Grahame-Smith THERE is a new thinking in Nigeria that is making many of us look happy…
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(Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An anthology of poems in honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019); Eds: Nduka Otiono and Uchechukwu Umezurike; Narrative Landscape Press, 2020) It's so…
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“As things stand now, their recent action casts serious doubts on their capacity to achieve anything reasonable. They are possibly unaware of the magnitude of Africa’s problem and the…
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*I welcome return of stolen African Arts, says Prof Abiodun Rowland Abiodun, John C. Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst,…
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Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't…
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(Nigeria and the Challenge of Federalism, by Ike Okonta, 2021) Federalism is the best curb on democracy. assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is…
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(In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation; by Toyin Falola, Carolina Academic Press, 2019)  In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing…
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(Sunny Side of Midnight, by Tope Adeboboye, Stay Alive International, 2020) Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth - Albert Camus THE story is set…
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(The Yoruba: A New History; by Akinwumi Ogundiran; Indiana University Press; 2020) History is more than the facticity of what happened…. It is also about what it…
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