As has become a tradition since 2019, Providus Bank will be staging its 3rdProvidusBank Poetry Café on Tuesday, March 21 at the Grand Ballroom Eko Hotel & Suites Victoria Island, Lagos. Titled World Poetry Day with Wole Soyinka, the event…
Global conquest of Nigerian literature
I can never get tired of celebrating Nigerian literature, arguably Nigeria’s greatest gift to the world. The politics of Nigeria is a disaster that makes the whole wide world laugh at the so-called “Giant of Africa”. Aside from creative literature,…
The evolving poetics of the Jagaban of Borgu — Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Aspects of Nigeria have been compared to a dancing mask. No less so, its political leadership and followership. Like one overzealous pundit aptly put it, the story of our nation’s power play is always in an unravelling mode. In fact,…
Soyinka’s “Childe Internationale” to set tone for 2022 Muson Festival
The much anticipated 2022 MUSON Festival kicks off in grand style on Friday, October 21 with the cast and crew of the Festival Drama– Childe Internationale, set to mesmerise the audience with impressive displays on stage and to set the…
In Search of Unity: 62 years after — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
No Nigerian leader thus far has been able to breast the unity tape. Forget all the fine words and promises and boasts, most Nigerian leaders have been victims of false starts, like overzealous athletes. It takes a holistic understanding of…
19 Gbosas for the Grandmaster of Data – Toni Kan
They said telephones were for the rich and we believed them. That was probably why when the GSM era dawned, SIM cards were sold for more than the minimum wage and so priced far above the reach of the ordinary…
Hope is what we need, not muckraking — Ehi Braimah
Two high profile disavowals directly linked to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), occurred recently: one by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and the other by Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana. When members of…
WSICE 2022: Dele Farotimi, Bimbo Manuel, Ier Jonathan, others speak on “Citizenship & Nation Building”
Speakers in the Advocacy session of the 2022 edition of the annual Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange, WSICE, holding virtually on July 13, have been unveiled by the organisers. The WSICE 2022 programme, which is in celebration of Wole Soyinka’s…
Owo terror attack was a message to South-West, says Soyinka
Nobel Laureate and renowned playwright, Prof . Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as a message to the entire people of South-West. Soyinka made his view known…
A tale that won’t forgive silence: Review of Okey Ndibe’s “Arrows of Rain” at 20 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe; Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria; 20th Anniversary Edition 2021; 230pp Okey Ndibe’s acclaimed debut novel Arrows of Rain was published in Year 2000 as one of the last titles of the esteemed Heinemann African Writers Series. …