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
FELABRATING FROM A DISTANCE: Harmonising Loose Ends
I beg not to be misunderstood. I don’t believe it’s wrong to celebrate Fela with fanfare and cannabis but I think a cache of robust dialogue must be begin and be sustained. Felabration should be the youth’s way of saying “No” or “Enough is Enough” or any form of raising a standard against the Government. Just as I was trying to unleash my muse to gather material for this last blog entry, something popped in my mind: the unhindered effects... Read More
FELABRATING FROM A DISTANCE: Demystifying Fela
I heard the childish babble of Afrobeat In the prenuptial ceremony of music, A pitiful horn section set in the torture Of voicing sterile love songs1 There’s the challenge of a sprawling white page that every writer must conquer. Indeed there is a bigger challenge of writing into the heart of a title and such is this: writing a blog entitled “Demystifying Fela” is both ambiguous and ambitious, so please be pitiful, be quick to temper justice... Read More
