The drama of The Milkmaid (2020) unfolds as an intense, risky attempt by Aisha to find her kidnapped sister.

While under house arrest as the Prime Minister, Sankara inspired the military coup that ousted Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo in 1983.

With this second film, Afọláyan quickly established himself as a director of note, the pan-Nigerian consciousness of his work blooming...

In a sense, Afolayan’s death in 1996, and Adejobi’s soon after, marked the symbolic demise of a tradition of Yoruba...

I want to be clear from the outset: the Islamist fundamentalist group called Boko Haram is a terrorist organization and...

Foremost Nigerian filmmaker, writer, television producer, and entrepreneur, Amaka Igwe, died suddenly on Monday, April 28, 2014. She was reportedly...

Right now, I have before me two documents: the Bill proposed to the Nigerian parliament in 2006 to “make provisions...

With the promulgation of the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition law this past January, the Nigerian government may have initiated a process...

The wiry, slightly stooped man leaps on the stage, clutching a sheaf of papers. Spectacles peering beneath an Elvis Presley...

The Ghanaian poet and diplomat, Kofi Awoonor, was one of the fifty-nine people murdered last month in Nairobi by Islamist...

What is this confounding subject in Nigerian society called Boko Haram? Is it of the kind of clerical fascism that...

In the euphoric days following the end of military rule, with Olusegun Obasanjo settled into his job as Nigeria’s President...

Of the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist of Open City, Teju Cole’s elegantly disarming novel, finds himself, two strike...

Late one evening in mid-February 1999, I stood at a train station in Oakland, California, waiting for a Bay Area...

With his second-round loss to an unknown Ukrainian player in this year’s Wimbledon, tennis great Roger Federer has missed reaching...

The death last week of the President of Venezuela, Commandante Hugo Chavez, caught me by surprise, although I was aware...

If you want to know what a serious thinker considers the idea closest to his heart, pay attention to what...

How does one maintain optimism about Nigeria? All visible signs show a country in poor shape and steadily getting worse....

Akin Adesokan celebrates Martin Banham, a great British drama scholar, who has fond memories about Nigeria and its unique theater...

"Nigerians expect a lot from their presidents; they expect a president to be powerful without being overbearing."