Other People’s Sundays
By Nasirudeen Muritala I have watched families eat togetherthrough windows I was never invited behind,a father stealing meat from his child’s plate,a mother complaining about the messwhile secretly smiling at it. They make ordinary things look sacred,school runs, arguments, birthdays,someone shouting from upstairs,“Have you seen my keys?” and another voice answering from the kitchen.I used […]
Jamoh Yusuf’s book: Panacea for maritime security challenges
Harnessing Nigeria’s Maritime Assets: Past, Present & Future is a book written by Jamoh Bashir Yusuf (Ph.D) of the Centre For Logistics and Transport Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Graduate Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Ebun Akinbo wins Fashola Photography Foundation prize
For a second successive time, another budding female photographer has emerged winner of this year’s photography contest organised this year by the Fashola Photography Foundation (FPF) and curated by Temple Management Company (TMC), a pan-African talent agency and event company.
Festival for performing arts debuts in November
The Inaugural Lagos Fringe Festival will take place from November 11 through 18, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a festival for performing arts and interdisciplinary conversations. It will feature local and international artistes from South Africa, U.K., U.S., Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Benin.
Critical review of Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy
WOLE Soyinka is a Nigerian known across the globe as a playwright, novelist, poet, critic, actor, director and a human rights activist who relentlessly castigates his generation often with a clear-cut blueprint for its moral regeneration, mostly through satire. Soyinka, reputed for his constant healthy criticism of the nauseating structures in his society, engages this age-long task artistically from a very different plane in the play, The Beatification Of Area Boy.
National degeneration, thoughts of generational paradigm shift and optimism in Ebi Yeibo’s A Song for Tomorrow…
Ebi Yeibo’s latest collection contains forty-two poems and these poems outnumber the poems in his maiden collection of poems titled MAIDEN LINES. It is interesting to note that it is perhaps in acknowledgement of Ebi Yeibo’s poetic sophistication and commitment that A song for tomorrow and other poems has deservingly won series of literary awards since its publication.
