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An Interpreter of Diasporic Nigerian Consciousness

Ancci·January 19, 2025

In his fourth full-length poetry collection, Autobiomythography of, Ayokunle Falomo intertwines his personal and diaspora history with Nigeria’s colonial past, anatomizing the psychological and cultural impacts of colonialism on the Nigerian identity. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria Reading

‘My Writing Goal This Year Is to Follow My Creative Curiosities’ Arinze Ifeakandu’s First Draft

Arinze Ifeakandu·January 19, 2025

Nigerian writer and author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things, Arinze Ifeakandu, holds the Nigerian government responsible for the anxiety experienced by queer Nigerians in the country: ‘I believed that our ruling class was largely responsible, by entrenching such avoidable hardship, for much of the intimate fractures around us. And that the people’s (and the state’s) obstinate homophobia was to blame for what I considered the “nervous condition” of gay youth.’ Read More...

December 24/January 25 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

S2 EP3: The Ogoni Crisis

Wale Lawal·January 19, 2025

How did the Ogonis’ peaceful protest turn into a nightmare that many in Ogoniland today are still shuddering from? How did the Ogonis’ hopes become weaponized against them? Let’s find out together. The third episode of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...

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A New Era of Nigeria-India Relations?

Adeleke Ogunnoiki·January 12, 2025

There is an opportunity for Nigeria to capitalize on the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nigeria to improve our bilateral relationship with India. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

What It Means to Attend Aké Festival

Seyi Lasisi·January 12, 2025

The Aké Arts & Book Festival is drawing young people from across Nigeria and the African diaspora, fostering connections, and inspiring a vibrant culture of literary growth and creativity. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

Note on Being Groomed for Exile

Ibrahim Williams·January 12, 2025

As Africans, our being lost in the diaspora is contingent on the preservation of life for ourselves and for those of our families left behind. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

Youth, Poetry and the Nigerian Traumatic

Ancci·January 12, 2025

In a nation like Nigeria that is not so far removed from constant distress and anguish, it is only reasonable that literature, especially from young writers, serves as the analytical medium of these experiences. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

It Is Time to Let the ‘African Mother’ Jokes Go

Chukwuka Odigbo·January 12, 2025

In recent times, we have been inundated with various social media depictions of African mothers, portraying them as ignorant, irrational, and incoherent. These depictions engender a reading of primitive difference in Africans by reinforcing the trope of the conservative, backward African. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

S2 EP2: The Political Rise of Ken Saro-Wiwa (Part II)

Wale Lawal·January 7, 2025

What was it about the Ogoni movement that made it (to borrow from the American writer, Toni Cade Bambara) ‘irresistible’ to Ken Saro-Wiwa? Let’s find out together. The second part of episode two of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...

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S2 EP2: The Political Rise of Ken Saro-Wiwa (Part I)

Wale Lawal·January 7, 2025

What was it about the Ogoni movement that made it (to borrow from the American writer, Toni Cade Bambara) ‘irresistible’ to Ken Saro-Wiwa? Let’s find out together. The second episode of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...

Nigeria Podcasts The Republic Podcast

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