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‘Changing Your Mind Is Underrated.’ Bomi Fagbemi’s First Draft

Bomi Fagbemi·September 8, 2021

Author of ‘The Shadow of Saint-Domingue’, Bomi Fagbemi, finds its difficult to separate good writing from a good story. Read our interview. Read More...

August/September 2021 First Draft Interviews Nigeria vol5-no3

Who Was Ojukwu? The Many Perceptions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Charles Ekpo·September 8, 2021

Before he died in 2011, leader of the Biafran secessionist movement, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, had assumed four personalities: he was a hero, a villain, a rebel, and even a ‘one-Nigerianist’. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Biafra Editors Picks: Independence Day Nigeria vol5-no3

Gender, Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism The Anti-Colonial Legacies of African Women

Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo·September 8, 2021

That women’s participation in anti-colonial and nationalist struggles may not be as obvious in existing literature does not mean such participation was peripheral. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Cameroon Ethiopia International Women's Day - Essays Kenya Nigeria South Africa vol5-no3 Zimbabwe

Egba Women Unite! Lessons from the Egba Women’s Anti-Colonial Movement

lanaire aderemi·September 8, 2021

For much of history, Egba market women have been erroneously (re)presented as ‘barbaric’ and ‘disorganized’. Such women, however, were indelible forces of anti-colonial resistance. Their legacies invite us to deconstruct anti-colonial struggles—a restorative and equally revolutionary act. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Editors Picks: Independence Day International Women's Day - Essays Nigeria vol5-no3

Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Zikism The President and the Revolutionary Ideology He Denied

Akintunde Agunbiade·September 8, 2021

A troubled relationship with Zikism, the leftist political ideology Nnamdi Azikiwe inspired and drew his political base from, may explain his sudden yet prolonged fall from prominence. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Editors Picks: Independence Day Nigeria vol5-no3

Who Was Afi Ekong?

Tomisin Awosika·August 26, 2021

Nigerian artist, art promoter and collector, Afi Ekong, was the first woman to hold a solo art exhibition in Nigeria. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Gender International Women's Day - Icons Nigeria

Come and See The Redeeming Inventiveness of Kenneth Ize and Mowalola Ogunlesi

Wale Lawal and Boluwatife Akinro·August 25, 2021

Kenneth Ize and Mowalola Ogunlesi both present a distinct way of engaging with African history but this time the lesson is for Africans themselves and concerns what Africans consider to be history. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Nigeria

‘Adolescence Is a Relatively Young Concept.’ Edwin Okolo’s First Draft

Edwin Okolo·August 13, 2021

Writer and author of ‘Iyibo My First’, Edwin Okolo, wishes more people realized the novelty of adolescence: ‘As early as 150 years ago, you were a child, and then became an adult.’ Read our interview. Read More...

August/September 2021 Best of 2021 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

‘I Think of Each Draft Like a Ladder With Rungs’ Eloghosa Osunde’s First Draft

Eloghosa Osunde·August 6, 2021

When Eloghosa Osunde was working on her debut novel, VAGABONDS!, she learnt that writing it was the easy part: ‘Writing a book changes you. At the idea stage of any work, there are all these plans you have for what you will do with a story.’ Read our interview. Read More...

August/September 2021 Best of 2021 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence

Ndidi Akahara·July 28, 2021

Through ‘Sozaboy’, Ken Saro-Wiwa explores how war on the African continent has come to function as a central aspect of political economy in the neoliberal world. Read more. Read More...

June/July 2021 Nigeria

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