My Nigerian books of the year

Books deliver both joy and pain. They deliver knowledge, wisdom and take us to places we…

BOOK REVIEW: Small doses of happiness

As human beings, we pass through stuff we don’t understand; we experience tribulations that make us…

Chimamanda turns the table

The Visit’ reminds me of Adegunju’s home video and also brought to mind Klein. The similarity…

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Saworoide 2’ at a time like this

Our next leaders should enter a pact with Nigerians with a modern version of ‘saworoide’ and…

BOOK REVIEW: Let’s talk about Lola Akinmade

Lola and Jessica were so eager and positive that the book would be snapped up in…

BOOK REVIEW: Godfatherism, fuel scarcity and sundry matters (2)

He is taken to a cell meant for people awaiting extra-judicial killing. While awaiting his fate,…

BOOK REVIEW: Like COVID-19, like Grey

Their sister who remains home is seized by the fear that she will die of hunger…

BOOK REVIEW: Lessons in Grief (2)

This novel explores interracial marriage and its many complications. She also examines familial love and how…

OPINION – Lessons in grief (1)

While the big picture is grief, this book explores modern dating and its risks, a parent’s…

OPINION – How to help Nigeria in 2023

As we vote in February, it should be for a President who will give us new…

OPINION – Dear Alagba Sola Fosudo

 When kids do well, parents are happy. When they turn bad, parents are sad. Getting ones…

 OPINION –  Hushpuppi’s first Thanksgiving

The likes of Hushpuppi blame the conmen in power for pauperising the people. This, to a…

OPINION – National Assembly and private sector operators 

I have always wondered if the National Assembly has the kind of power to carry out…

OPINION – I remember you, Biyi Bandele 

No culture is superior to the other. What is barbaric to one race is some other…

OPINION – Don’t bury me in a golden casket

My attitude to funeral services is pivoted on a Yoruba saying that burying the dead is…

OPINION – New York, New York

New York will always be a beacon for other American enclaves. Like Lagos the city, New…

OPINION – Another letter to Mr President

Pregnant women are developing strange allergies. Yet, health centres are ill-equipped to take care of their…

OPINION – Assistant gods in our midst

Some fraudsters are also on the pulpits and are using 419 tricks to get people to…

OPINION – Of dreams and America

In the alluring opening paragraphs of Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, we meet Jende, a Camerounian, who…

Abibiman African Writers Series releases Vaults of Secrets in the UK 

The collection explores themes such as rare gift, doppelganger cum reincarnation, justice dispensation, betrayal, paternity, childhood…

OPINION – A mother and her daughter

By Olukorede Yishau What could make a daughter and mother sleep with the same man? Why…

OPINION – Crazy moments

By Olukorede Yishau These are interesting times to be a Nigerian. Even when you are outside…

Social responsibility

By Olukorede Yishau Let us call her Aliyah. She is on the bed, her body hot…

OPINION: Nobelist Gurnah, Nigerian politicians and other tales

By Olukorede Yishau It will be hard for a Nigerian reader not to take special note…

OPINION: Obiano’s wife must be a Senator

By Olukorede Yishau I had a dream; well, I am not sure if it was really…

Elumelu and things we need to tell ourselves

By Olukorede Yishau ‘In this glistering and moribund restaurant called Naija, hunger dies of lack! Yesterday’s…

OPINION: For everyone, for no one

By Olukorede Yishau In my land, which my forebears bequeathed to me, cows no longer moo,…

Women’s day and Ambassador Emenike

By Olukorede Yishau Nigeria’s United States’ chancery sits pretty on a hill’s crest at 3519 International…

When fiction probes silence, darkness

By Olukorede Yishau Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’ has a ring around it: Silence. In this…

Opinion: Aridolf, Aridolf, Aridolf

By Olukorede Yishau A novelist once told me his experience with a fiction editor not versed…