Reading Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease in 2023, six decades after it was first published, the story offers a historical reckoning and a prophetic warning about Nigeria’s future. Did a refusal to heed this warning have a calamitous effect on Nigeria and its people?
20 years ago, Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, made her debut in the Nigerian literary scene with Purple Hibiscus. With all its masterfully curated elements that immediately stamped Adichie as a global literary voice, her 2003 novel remains an incisive guide to Nsukka.
Deeply rooted in Nigeria’s culture and commerce, Okrika (thrift clothes) is a vital source of affordable clothing for many Nigerians. A looming ban on Okrika is set to change not just Nigeria’s fashion industry but life in Nigeria as we know it.
Nigerian novelist and author of Daughters Who Walk This Path, Yejide Kilanko, wants to write more children’s books in the future: ‘I have had the privilege of publishing two children’s picture books. I want to write more children’s books that feature diverse characters. Every child should be able to see themselves represented in accessible books.’
Editor and author of Caine Prize shortlisted story ‘Daughters, By Our Hands’ Ekemini Pius, believes rather than the subject, how a story is written makes a text powerful.
The outrage that has trailed Bosun Tijani’s ministerial nomination over his old tweets is misdirected. If anything, Nigerians need to be just as angry as those tweets.
Nigeria’s food insecurity crisis has worsened. The emergency President Tinubu has declared is the first step towards acknowledging and addressing this escalating crisis. It now requires a sustained, multi-faceted response to mitigate the severity and ultimately reverse the trend.
Author of ‘Nigeria vs the South East: The Glaring Igbophobia of the 2023 Elections’ Ernest Nweke, believes the anti-Igbo bigotry of the last election season was an experience many Igbos are familiar with despite denial and gaslighting from the rest of Nigeria.
The exodus of a new generation of Nigerian writers has sparked discussions about the state of Nigerian literature in recent times. Some have asserted that Nigerian literature is dead or dying and that writing from within a Nigerian context, from home, is becoming an endangered art.
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