Professor Pius Adesanmi is arguably the most restless public intellectual in Nigeria today. He needs no introduction to millions of Nigerians that regularly visit leading web-based platforms like Nigeria Village Square, Sahara Reporters and Premium Times. Beyond those new media platforms, his essays on contemporary issues are also usually published in other less known blogs and sites, just as his satires are widely circulated via twitter ... Read More »
The motto of Obafemi Awolowo University is: “For Learning and Culture”. No one academic in Nigeria reflects and personifies that maxim more than Professor Chinua Achebe. The grandfather of modern English Literature in Africa was both a colossus in learning as he was a thorough-bred and highly cultivated individual in manners and character. Achebe’s transition last week took the world ... Read More »
The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to immortalise the late Prof. Chinua Achebe by naming the National Library after him. The House also observed a minute’s silence in honour of the literary icon and condoled with his family over his death. Achebe died in Boston, United States of America, on Thursday last week at the age ... Read More »
LITERATURE AND ETHNICITY: Is literature shaped by the cultural contexts of the authors? Being keynote address presented in Port Harcourt , Rivers State by CHINUA ACHEBE at the 2011 Garden City Literary Festival ETHNICITY is a somewhat problematic word. The great American anthropologist and poet, Stanley Diamond, used such words as ethnic with complete and disarming respect, unlike ... Read More »
An Elegy For Reuben Abati (2011 – 2015) Abati is dead and gone to his grave, Ooh! Aah! Gone to his grave. They planted a mango tree over his head, Ooh! Aah! Over his head. The mangoes grew ripe and ready to drop, Ooh! Aah! Ready to drop. But Old Papa Mango said, “Bloody hell, STOP.” Ooh! Aah! Bloody hell, ... Read More »
