AFRICA
Ethiopian Food as Divine Blessing
Some people self-care with a massage or a spa day. Me? I find the nearest Ethiopian restaurant.
Big of Ego, Sensitive of Eyes
To a generation of Nigerians, the character Àjàlá might as well be an urban legend.
Risking Your Life to Get to School
increasing abductions on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway
Romeo Oriogun Earnestly Converses With Time And History
Romeo Oriogun has always regarded his life as some form of “protest”, and in many ways, he’s not far from the truth.
The Longest Memory
I am more familiar with the poetry of Fred D’Aguiar than his prose, so I was thrilled when I discovered his debut novel at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra where I was a writer-in-residence in April earlier this year.
Hope Is The Anthem That Runs Through No U-Turn
In 1997, a young Ike Nnaebue, along with free of his friends, left Lagos, Nigeria for a journey across West Africa, hoping to get into Europe by road (and ultimately) by sea, but a fortuitous encounter at Mali’s capital city caused him to make a detour, one that would change the trajectory of his life forever.
Bilateral Love Affair
I love my country. But America Courts me — the man with everything.
Biyi Bándélé: The Storyteller Departs
The writer-director, author of Burma Boy, Biyi Bandélé, has passed.
Are God’s Children Little Broken Things?
Ifeakandu, in his debut, reveals the mundane and daring lives of gay men in Nigeria, conveying their everyday experiences with compassion.
Born to Die
They will ask me when I know, I’ll sigh and say not so long ago. It happened in fragments—piece by piece you came and filled up the empty space—and in a matter of time, you became my world.
A Generation of Nigerian Students is Stranded
But striking profs have an extremely valid point