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Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey Review: Gangsterism and Nollywood Trap
In almost all of Nigeria’s history, this is the standard narrative and the most potent trigger for the japa waves. In this way, Efe, the central character in To Kill a Monkey, is an everyman, an every Nigerian. For the unemployed, or the underemployed, as in the case of Efe, what remains is often a… Read more
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Teaching Oleku: Tunde Kelani’s Yoruba Classic for a New Generation
What happens when a 1997 Yoruba classic meets a new generation of heritage learners? In my class, Oleku sparked rich conversations on love, family, and the tug-of-war between tradition and modernity, revealing that some stories remain timeless, even decades later. Read more
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Life Does Not Stop
If I did learn anything from 2021 it’s that the world does not stop. Life does not stop. I lost my mother. I’d always now look back at 2021 as that year I stopped having a mother. She was the the only person I thought was invincible – indestructible. Not that I didn’t expect she’d Read more
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So today’s my Birthday…and my Mother’s Dream
I am pleasantly surprised where the years have gone to. 10 years ago I was a starry-eyed, dreamy teenager. 10 years on, I’m just three steps towards completing my third decade on earth. Wow Read more
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Book Review: Kike Ojo’s Fire in the Wind — When Is Success Enough in a Jaundiced Society?
A complexly woven narrative, which straddles three West-African countries and goes back and forth between the present and the past, Fire in the Wind narrates Angela’s moving struggle against the overwhelming tide of an unfair fate, aided by a partial society. Read more
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