Essayist and author of ‘From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes: Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman, Merlin Uwalaka, finds it ridiculous that there are Nigerians who are proud to say that they do not watch Nigerian movies.
Author and speechwriter for the Vice President of Nigeria, Ore Ogunbiyi, thinks everyone should read Emmanuel C. Eze’s Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader before leaving university.
For Moyosore Orimoloye, poet and author of Poet in the Time of Buhari, poetry does more than ‘wrap the mundane in arcane language’; sometimes, poetry gives us ‘“simple” words by which to articulate what we think is a complex experience.’
Introducing First Draft: a new weekly column about reading, books and writing inspired by questions our editors have had during the course of working with authors.
'Interrogate your institutions; take climate change to the committee in parliament and get lawmakers engaged on issues they can connect with their constituencies on.' — Amina J. Mohammed on strategies for people-led climate change intervention.
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