Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the Department of English, UNILAG class of 1998. It was a wonderful occasion that evoked nostalgia and the revival of receding memories. I met classmates I had not seen in twenty-six years.…
Does Nigeria need a film city? – Onyeka Nwelue
I wrapped up shoot for my new film, Other Side of History, recently. It is set between 1954 and 1960. It is a biopic of Emeka Ojukwu, son of Sir Louis Ojukwu, who was the richest man in Igbo land.…
JP Clark honoured in Lagos
It was an evening of tributes for poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark Bekederemo, in Lagos on Wednesday. Members of the Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association (GCUOBA) were joined by Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, Jimi Agbaje, writers and…
A Time to Build: Matters arising from the protest – Obari Gomba
It is normal to posit that every Nigerian wants a better country even when we differ about the route to that destination. It is time to find a common ground and build peace on the basis of justice. The pursuit…
How JP Clark led Achebe & Soyinka to IBB – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Writing is fighting. That is the dictum of the fiery African-American writer Ishmael Reed who wrote a book entitled Writing is Fighting. Whether taken literally or otherwise writers fire bullets with words, and in some instances actually take up guns…