A Particular Kind of Bildungsroman Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man
Tope Folarin’s ambitious novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, offers a grand examination of provincial societies and, ultimately, the human condition.
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Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament A Writer's Many Controversies
Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more.
No More Insufficient Funds Yahoo Yahoo and Cybercrime’s International Ecosystem
Nigeria is not alone in cybercrime. But among a considerable number of Nigerians, cybercrime or Yahoo Yahoo exists at the intersection of crime and means of livelihood; wrong but necessary.
#TooBigToLike Questioning ‘Choice’ in Global Surveillance Capitalism
Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, exhibit a new stage of corporate power. These organizations are so large, our views on them are inconsequential—they have effectively become too big to like.
Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’
Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria
The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today.
Colouring inside the Politically Personal Nanjala Nyabola's Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics
In her latest book, Nanjala Nyabola paints the complexities of Kenyan politics as underlies the relationship between Kenyans and digital technology.
A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities
In his latest book, Chigozie Obioma draws readers and critics to the understanding of a man through the metaphysics of existence.
Visual Politics in Apartheid South Africa How Images Shaped the Anti-Apartheid Movement
In the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, images were used as weapons against the oppressive government to attack the injustices of the system.
Odunsi the Engine’s ‘rare.’ Authenticity and the Alté Lineage in Nigerian Pop Culture
In his debut album, rare., Odunsi and his collaborators re-articulate an African creative philosophy of being many things at the same time.