Culture & Society
‘Write Something Every Day’ Oreva Olakpe’s First Draft
Author and Sino-Africa scholar, Oreva Olakpe, wants more happiness in books about African women. Read our interview. Read More...
‘Are the people in this story I’m telling recognizably human?’ Saratu Abiola’s First Draft
Each time author of ‘A Woman among Women’, Saratu Abiola, writes, her truth is at stake. Hence, she writes, ‘to learn what I know and what I don’t, organizing my thoughts in as intellectually honest a way that I can so that I come away from it with more clarity than when I started.’ Read More...
‘Language is resilient’ Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún’s First Draft
What fascinates author and linguist, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, about language is its ‘resilience despite human attitude’; its ability to ‘find its way, though not always in the directions we want.’ Read More...
‘COVID-19 is a Big Scam’ Citizens’ Distrust and the Challenge of Combating Coronavirus in Nigeria
Although it is dangerous to entertain doubts towards the threat of COVID-19, Nigerians may have justifiable reasons to be sceptical about the government’s approach. Read More...
‘Talent not nurtured is useless.’ Moyosore Orekoya’s First Draft
Chemical Engineer and author of ‘Democracy Questioned: How Democracy Can Fail Us, and What to do About It’, writes and edits ‘in chunks’, finding before editing ‘the golden mean sweet spot where I write an ‘idea’ or a standalone chunk of the article’. Read More...
The ‘Lion of Africa’ with Cat Claws Nigeria’s Image Problem
After 60 years of independence, Nigeria has failed to establish significant political leverage on the global scene and is not the African superpower many tout it to be. Read More...
‘Every Time You Decide to Write, What Is at Stake for You?’ Joshua Segun-Lean’s First Draft
Essayist and author of ‘Long Live the Children of Disobedience’ and ‘The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe’, Joshua Segun-Lean, edits as he writes, ‘feeling for a sense and a sound I might never arrive at but must keep tuning for.’ Read More...
Finding Self: Of Gods, Contestation and Containment Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
A dark story about recognizing and coming to terms with the many fragments of our being, Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater, is a macabre and jarring tale of contestation and containment. Read More...
Nation Forgotten Nigeria’s Neglected Pensioners
After decades of service, retired public servants in Nigeria are spending their retirement years in depravation. Read More...
‘Who has time for undecided authors?’ Dominique Otigbah’s First Draft
If she could write about any moment in history, historian and author of ‘Reading Biafra’, Dominique Otigbah, would write a history of stockfish, ‘a quintessential Nigerian ingredient with its origins in Northern Norway.’ Read More...
