Saraba Magazine on Sex
Saraba Magazine’s 11th Issue will explore the subject of sex and sexuality – sex as ‘being’ and sex as ‘doing.’ How does sex manifest itself as a question of personhood, difference, affection, rights, protest, etc. The Publishers and Editors hope to recieve diverse submissions of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that reflect the open-ended parenthesis that surrounds/reflects the diversity of sex and sexuality. Our... Read More
The Revolution in Real-Time
Here are my questions and suggestions: 1. Can the Political Scientists and the Lawyers amongst us enlighten us on the constitutional devices by which the National Assembly can pressure the Executive or Judiciary into taking a particular course of action? 2. Based on our practical options and the decision criterion of ‘what is immediately actionable’, can we can draft a 1-paged, straightforward and measurable demand which we would press... Read More
News: Society of Young Nigerian Writers
Here is useful news from the Society of Young Nigerian Writers SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERS TO CELEBRATE YORUBA LANGUAGE WRITERS WITH FAGUNWA’S NIGHT In a statement released by Mr. Wole Adedoyin, the National President of the Society stated that the Society is now planning to organize another great literary event in honour of the great author, D.O Fagunwa. The programme is tagged “Fagunwa’s Night”. Fagunwa’s Night promises to be an... Read More
The Trial of Christopher Abani
If you are reading this and do not know your left from yourwrong, I do not expect to help you much. If you are still in need of someone to reassure you that lying is bad then you’d have to look elsewhere. Paul de Man alerts us to the blindness that attends insight. On the other hand, the sixth sense popularly attributed to the blind speaks of an insight that they say compensates for the loss of sight (I recommend Stephen Kuusisto’s Planet... Read More
44 Questions for Madam, the Prime Minister
…ceteris paribus…. Let us, for a moment, suspend all possibilities of revolutions, anarchy, and coups. Let us pretend Nigeria is a simple economic system. I wish to use this opportunity to call on all our world-class economist to join in this debate, if they would be so kind and if they have not already done so. They should please help to answer some of these questions, point out the false assumptions, the wrong, misleading use of terminology,... Read More
