Cancel culture is a polarising topic. For some, it has gone too far and stifles free speech. In a scathing response to being criticised for allegedly transphobic comments, author...
Cameroonian Nkiacha Atemnkeng’s visa application was rejected three times despite having been offered a prestigious international literary residency in America. Atemnkenge wanted to attend the 2017 Arti Omi International...
Going beyond #ENDSARS. Lessons from Haiti and The Black Radical Tradition. By Theophilus Wellington Introduction For the longest time, I have heard different commentaries about police reforms in Nigeria...
How do I know your palate is colonised you ask? Maybe because you relish the smell of stinky cheese and turn your nose up at the fragrance of iru...
A sentiment that I have found is shared amongst many Nigerians is the idea that we spend too much time talking about colonisation and that we overemphasise its effects...
Africa today conjures negative images of strife, economic backwardness, low life expectancy, illiteracy etc. More recently, the wave of ethnic conflicts across the continent, but mostly within states has...
“Europe created the concept of savageness and barbarism as antithesis to its modernity and civilisation. Henceforth, Europe was to represent the modern model and the rest was to represent...
THE STATE OF AFRICA: ARE WE TO BLAME? There has always been difficulty when it comes to explaining the current state of many African countries that are struggling to...
“All are our crops; but we get from others To middleman those are not from others. Yet they show them our jam-packed granary. Faces of our decrepit doctors, Inspiration...
In the book, ‘Decolonising the Mind’, N wu Thiong’o takes a different approach in discussing the post-colonial state, by noting that many African writers fail to see the colonial...