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In the name of our sisters: Everything Good Will Come
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/14/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Sister Atta, you speak to me in your book. You speak to me from deep in the bowels of my ancestors’ coven. You speak to me howling, bawling, and soaking me in the song of our mothers’ grief...
Burma Boys and Strange Wars
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/12/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Have you ever read a book that you could never put down because you feel this weird obligation to finish it? To relive that experience, buy Biyi Bandele’s book Burma Boy...
Every Day Is For The Thief
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 04/12/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
There are many things to like about this little book that purrs gently, ever so gently. The book exudes the quiet confidence of a writer properly centered in the beauty and challenges of his being...
Heritage – Jahdiel
- By MajiriOghene Bob
- Published 03/23/2008
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Certain songs are hostage-takers. They hold their victims in captivity and let them go only briefly when the song comes to an end...
Highlife: Fallacy Of Self Projection Of Benson Idonije On Rolling Dollar And Titi Oguntoyinbo
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 01/24/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Benson Idonije really loves highlife.
At times his love becomes obsessive and begins to tamper with his aesthetic
assessments...
Creative Writing and Reading Culture in Nigeria
- By Sunday Ogundugba
- Published 01/12/2008
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The price to pay to be a novelist and visionary as Achebe states is a healthy reading culture among the youth...
When the Exiled 'Reggae Rebel' Hit Home
- By SOC Okenwa
- Published 12/15/2007
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Like narcotics and other drugs, millions are hooked on music. That's why you have teenagers in the West whose behavorial abnormalities are traceable to heavy metal music with its violent lyrics...
On Lagbaja!'s Love Video, ‘Never Far Away’
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 12/15/2007
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Lagbaja! a soldier of culture, understands the authentic meaning of refreshing the traditional aesthetics, and handles it proficiently through modernisation and fusion with the sublime in urban and foreign elements...
Re: BBA: Debasing Self For A Fee
- By Pieray C. P. Odor
- Published 12/9/2007
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Shame and condemnation to Ofunneka, to her parents, to Nigerian federal and state governments, including Nigerian legislators, all Nigerian mothers who kept silent...
Big Brother Africa: Debasing Self For A Fee
- By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
- Published 12/9/2007
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I am not a fan of the Big Brother nonsense, and all such shows, like beauty pageants, where people are paid and cheered on to throw their honour and dignity as human beings to the dogs, to satisfy the depraved taste of irredeemable voyeurs...
