It is a journey of immense wonder and danger sailing on the waters of Niger Delta, where I travelled in...

Captain: In the Storm of Life; A Biography of Israel Ademola Gbadebo Haastrup, D.D., by Olakunle Abimbola; CSS Bookshops Limited...

The book, Before We Forget: Obasanjo’s Letter To President Jonathan And The Aftermath; Francis Abayomi (ed), came to my table...

Wisdom Tales: From Grandma’s Hearth, Volumes 1 & 2 by Chinedu S. Agu; Triatlantic Books Ltd, New York, USA; 2008...

The celebration of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi was understandably more political than poetical. It is in the realms of politics...

Maxim UzoatuShooting on celluloid has over the years been a bridge too far for Nigerian moviemakers. When the ace filmmaker...

Nigeria’s foremost Mono Dramatist, Greg Mbajiorgu is currently on sabbatical in the Department of English Language and Literature of the...

There is the argument that writers who are interested in style are those who really have no burning issues to...

Amene’s book is controversial. The religious types will of course not have kind words for him. Plight of the Icarus:...

Fellow Countrymen: The Story of Coups D’etats in Nigeria By Richard Akinnola; Richkonsult, Abuja; Revised Edition 2013. Military coups and...

Recall the gory video scene of the killing of then President Samuel Doe of Liberia. There was the beer-guzzling Prince...

Nothing can be more jarring than discovering at this moment when one is congratulating oneself on having written on everything...

Miracles do not come any greater than giving vision to the blind. The Nigeria Society for the Blind (NSB) at...

The whole wide world is stark awake, day and night, waiting for the Mandela hour. But there’s no escaping the...

Book publishing in Nigeria is in dire straits. It shook me up like a charge of electricity that there is...

“Except Aso Villa is scrapped for good there may be no light at the end of a very dark Nigerian...

“The slumming of a big city such as Lagos took quite some time…” The book on the reconstruction of Lagos...

“The works of art presented here are coded in furniture of utilitarian types that are simply alluring.” The ambience at...

Back in recent time, when gubernatorial mandates were brazenly stolen in broad daylight under the watch of the imperial presidency...

Ours was a meeting of minds on the OP-ED pages of The Guardian in the 1980s. He signed off his articles...

Ashikiwe died of prostate cancer. Ours was a meeting of minds on the OP-ED pages of The Guardian in the...

“Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.” - Nellie L. McClung Chinua...

The news caught me in the web of the post-okada-ban heavy Lagos traffic jam: Owei Lakemfa has been elected the...

“Wild Spirits is sumptuously well-written, and it deservedly won the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction.”

Asharifa Johka: "The future of Nollywood is limitless. It will soar to heights that are hard to imagine now" How...