The producer and director of Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, Kola Tubosun, discusses the making of the documentary and the significance of the setting to Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka’s life.
Though Atiku’s art confronts external issues, it is more an art that demands inwardness, reflection, and contemplation of what we are, what we want, and what we want our world to be.
On 19 January 1994, General Abacha sent a federal ministerial committee to Ogoniland to meet with Ken Saro-Wiwa in Bori. Lieutenant Colonel Komo, who acted as the official guide of the Committee, saw the tour as an opportunity to impress Abacha. With such differing goals between Saro-Wiwa and Lieutenant Komo, what kind of collision was about to happen? Let’s find out together. The fourth episode of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Amid growing anti-French sentiments in former African colonies, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s relationship with France raises the question of whether Nigeria will become Paris’s new inroad into Africa.
Nigeria’s Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy aims to harness the nation’s vast maritime potential but can Minister Gboyega Oyetola successfully navigate these complex waters?
For a while now, agony aunt columns in Nigerian media have offered Nigerians some of the most convenient routes for addressing intimate and societal issues, and navigating the complexities of relationships and cultural norms.
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.
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.’
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.
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