Although the celebration was met with enthusiasm and grew in popularity throughout the following decades, with endorsement as a holiday from President Gerald Rudolf Ford, the 38th US President during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, it has attracted criticisms in some quarters querying the continued usefulness and fairness of a month dedicated to the history of one race when other races do not have such singular month anniversary. It was hence branded as pure racism.

Nigeria Prize for Literature award-winning poet, Ikeogu Oke describes poetry as ‘a healthy narcotics’ as he romanticises with the genre that has bought him honour. 

A book review is not supposed to be a book report, or a comprehension as our children write in school. A book review is more for me to tell you what jumps out at you from this book and then finish up by telling you if it’s a book you might want to read or not.

The three shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me by Nigeria’s Ayobami Adebayo; What it Means When a Man Falls Down From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah, also a Nigerian; and Asylum by Marcus Low, from South Africa.

May 29 2018 will mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of the renowned music impresario, broadcaster and art manager, Steve Omodele Bankole Rhodes. Born at No. 38 Igbosere Road Lagos on April 8, 1926, he died on Democracy Day, May 29 2008 in a London hospital, where he had been admitted following a bout of illness.