Mobólúwajídìde Joseph, Author at The Republic

The Dark Matter of Genetics

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·August 24, 2025

From his mother’s community chemist shop in Enugu to a Toronto lab, Nigerian pharmacist Chukwunonso Nwabufo is building a device that could save lives by revealing how your genes respond to drugs, but his real revolution may be redefining what is ‘rare’ in medical research. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria vol9-no3

Death and the King’s Horseman at the Stratford Festival

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·August 18, 2024

The successes and challenges behind the production of one of Nigeria’s most iconic theatre works on a Western stage. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria Reading vol8-no3 Wole Soyinka

Yinka Shonibare and the Case for Nigeria at the Venice Biennale

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·May 19, 2024

Through Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, the Nigeria Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale presents a Nigeria that is more about routes than roots. A Nigeria that diagnoses its struggles with intricately imagined jokes while holding up a mirror to structural violence and broken promises. And a Nigeria that allows its children to return again and again in an ever-expanding array of visions and alternative futures. Read More...

April/May 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria vol8-no2

A ‘Soft and Spiritual Way’ The Restrained Dreaminess of Isabel Okoro’s Normatopia

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·June 14, 2023

In response to the violence Black people around the world routinely face, Nigerian photographer, Isabel Okoro has been situating her work in what she terms ‘normatopia’. A normatopia is normal, not perfect; a middle ground between the harshness of reality and the dreaminess of utopias. Read More...

June/July 2023 Nigeria

‘I’ve Always Struggled With Questions of Authenticity’ Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph’s First Draft

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·February 25, 2022

Growing up in Canada, author of ‘Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys Of Motherhood: A Precursor To Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts?’, Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph used to feel inauthentic as a Nigerian writer. Read our interview. Read More...

February/March 2022 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

Buchi Emecheta’s ‘The Joys Of Motherhood’ A Precursor to Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·November 29, 2021

‘The Joys of Motherhood’ could be considered as one of the forebears of feminist issues on reproductive justice and culture within the rich Nigerian literary tradition. Read more. Read More...

Nigeria October/November 2021 vol5-no4

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