BOOK EXCERPT/If I were to beg for mercy, it must be for an Offence
General Obasanjo set out the timetable for the return of the country to civilian rule, beginning Continue Reading
BOOK EXCERPT/ Did the Prophet Promise an Oilfield?
Uju herself was a ‘top contributor’, who had donated many thousands of dollars over the years. Continue Reading
On a Trip to South Africa, I Finally Found a Sense of Home
Sawubona, a greeting used by the Zulu people of South Africa to say hello. But the Continue Reading
No More My Little Friend
My friend Klaus, desperate to learn Russian, was always listening to a radio language learning programme Continue Reading
We Left the Rain Doctor in the Rain as the Thunder…
Sigma Club’s biggest event of the year was usually the Havana Night, a giant carnival that Continue Reading
Stalingrad
By Vladimir Kamimer For some time now, a lot of Russians living in Berlin, who would Continue Reading
The Sheer Strangeness of the Activity of Art
In February 1946, when Bombay, that super-epic motion picture of a city, was transformed overnight into Continue Reading
REMEMBERING KEN SARO WIWA
(To a brisk, somewhat martial beat) By Niyi Osundare I saw brave Ken the other night Continue Reading
Kid For Hire
Leke was certain that having his own party was a bad idea, but this certainty only Continue Reading
‘The Ancestors Retired Me. I lost…’
‘You are the boy who looked after Gcazimbane? What happened to Continue Reading