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A New Dawn in Nigeria

By on April 3, 2015

This past week has shown that my country Nigeria has come of age as a mature democracy with the opposition winning the popular vote and the people making their…

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Mother of George

By on August 7, 2013

2013 is certainly the year that Nigerian movies make it to the mainstream. We have the much-awaited cinematic adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (directed by…

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A Literary Hero Departs Our World

By on March 23, 2013

I started 2013 with Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country. It remains for me the most authentic account of the events of the Nigerian civil war. I like to…

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Lagos…still home!

By on April 28, 2010

NOTE: This article appeared on this blog a few years ago. Since I wrote this, I have been back to Lagos several times.

While I have not been back to…