Nigeria’s Catch 22
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.
If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.
Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, "L'Afrique Est Un Pays," as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.
The story of how the most famous portrait of a young Chinua Achebe was taken at his house in Enugu, Nigeria in 1959 by American photographer, Eliot Elisofon.
A meditation on left footed footballers, especially wingers, given the conventional wisdom that lefties are always useful to have in a match.
Chinua Achebe’s legacy is not fixed but rather about responding to change with energy and wit.
To my ear Achebe’s voice is always measured even at its most defiant.
Comparisons between Chinua Achebe and Nigeria's other great writer, Wole Soyinka, will increase, now Achebe has passed.
Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
A quick read of comments to recent posts defending gay rights, point to how deep-seated and widespread homophobia is in Nigeria.
An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.
Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.