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On Wole Soyinka
Our latest issue, The Enduring Voice of Wole Soyinka, celebrates the 90th birthday of Wole Soyinka and considers his influence on literature, African thought, plus more. Read More...
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A Walk Through Wole Soyinka’s ‘Àbíkú’
An anthropological attempt at unravelling Wole Soyinka’s rewardingly obscure poem, ‘Àbíkú’. Read More...
The Dramatic Procedures of Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka’s legacy as a dramatist is a testament to what a proper cultural education, clear ambition, and strict commitment to craft can produce. Read More...
Nnadi Samuel’s Eclectic Gaze
In his poetry chapbook, Nature Knows A Little About Slave Trade, Nnadi Samuel flexes an impressive thematic range, perpending such timeless and timely conditions as social policing, childhood, slave trade, religion as well as sign language. Read More...
The Ingenuity of Ayra Starr’s Afropop
On The Year I Turned 21, Ayra Starr proves to be a limitless star—undefined and unconstrained by musical boundaries or rules. Read More...
‘My Early Reading Featured a Lot of Religious Texts’ Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s First Draft
Nigerian writer, Chukwuebuka Ibeh, says the reception in Nigeria for his debut novel, Blessings, has been delightfully surprising: ‘I was prepared for much more vitriol, but that hasn’t been the case. I’ve also been amused by the split responses to events in the book, with some people wanting much less of the same thing that others seem to want much more of.’ Read More...
The Exuberance of Rema
What exactly is Rema’s latest album, HEIS? Is it noise, music, rage, rave? Afro rage? Afro metal? Read More...
A Moving Reflection on Love, Loss and Childhood
In his debut novel, Loss is an Aftertaste of Memories, Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà offers a deeply moving portrait of a narrator ahead of his time, contemplating childhood through the lens of memory. Read More...
Death and the King’s Horseman at the Stratford Festival
The successes and challenges behind the production of one of Nigeria’s most iconic theatre works on a Western stage. Read More...
The Coming-of-Age Novel as a Portrait of Nigeria
The bildungsroman is the novel of Nigeria. No other kind of novel captures completely what it means to be Nigerian in the volatile, high-velocity, interconnected world of the twenty-first century. Read More...
