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Nollywood...unending search for lifeline
- By Tony Abulu
- Published 02/22/2010
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Nollywood has amazing potential. For the industry to be truly viable, it will require a deft understanding of a specifically targeted niche market in the United States. It will take an aggressive approach towards copyright enforcement...
The Final Come Down Came: A Book Excerpt for Men Only
- By Michael Egbejumi-David
- Published 02/9/2010
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I had barely sat down. Hadn’t even had time to take the first sip of my coffee when this man planted himself in the chair directly opposite me. It was the last thing I needed...Lamentations of a Writer
- By Felix-Abrahams Obi
- Published 02/4/2010
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Somebody should have told me way back that I'll someday carry burdens like Atlas of ancient Greece which no one can help offload from my heart. For if I had known, I would have played out the worst-case scenario in my mind...In Search Of The African Writer
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 01/24/2010
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Our rage is misplaced; all over Africa our political and intellectual leaders are hard at work trying to convince the world that we are sub-humans. Yet, when we are called sub-humans, we wail foul. It was not white folks that sent us packing into the cold fields of exile...Book Review: On Black Sisters’ Street
- By Bemgba Nyakuma
- Published 12/29/2009
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Chika Unigwe’s book is a story of modern slave trade and a must read for everyone, especially budding young people back in Africa who often have mighty utopian dreams about life in Europe...Abuja Opera 2009 and the Wait for the Special Guest of Honour
- By Felix-Abrahams Obi
- Published 11/29/2009
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Barring the lateness of the Special Guest of Honour, Operabuja 2009 lived up to its high billing and once again satisfied the longings of many who have had enough of comedy shows and music concerts where DJs helped artists to mime their songs...
Writing Your Way to Glory
- By Okey Egboluche
- Published 11/29/2009
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I commend young aspiring writers from Nigeria. I urge them that even though Nigeria may have a poor reading culture or writing does not attract the kind of fame of music and Nollywood, they should keep their dream alive...
What Happened To Live Music?
- By Adepoju Paul Olusegun
- Published 11/22/2009
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I’m a Christian. Like other believers, I live my days with the expectation that very soon, our savior will appear in heaven to take us home. But on a fateful Sunday night in December 2008, I had a reason to beg Jesus Christ to delay his coming until a later date...
Hon. Chinua Achebe and Nobel Prize committee: The brewing and unending cold war
- By Emeka Chiakwelu
- Published 11/19/2009
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The Nobel Prize Committee and its intellectual hamlet have not forgiven Chinua Achebe for equating his book as the antithesis of Conrad's Heart of darkness. Those that witnessed the event and others misunderstood Things Fall Apart and Chinua Achebe...A Swamp Full of Hyenas
- By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
- Published 10/31/2009
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A Swamp Full of Dollars is a neatly compiled, carefully documented history coated in appealing prose. It is chock full of current statistics about Nigeria. This one is a keeper. And some of the data is frightening...