With her mother’s death still heavy on her heart, Onyinye’s father makes arrangements for her to marry the person of his choice and the situation goes out of control. Okafor Emmanuel Tochukwu Onyinye levered her naked self…
Wikithon Cameroon 2015
Pour une version en Français, cliquer ici For more details, go to the Wikithon Cameroon event page on Wikipedia here. The Goethe-Institut Kamerun will be hosting an edit-a-thon on Saturday, July 2015 which will focus on “places” and “spaces”…
[Book Review] Adewale Maja-Pearce’s The House My Father Built
Amatesiro Dore Amatesiro Dore assesses Adewale Maja-Pearce’s memoir in an unorthodox review, which matches the nature of the book in question, as he highlights Maja-Pearce’s history as the troublemaker of African literature. The House My Father Built, Adewale Maja-Pearce,…
A Start-up’s Desire to Curb Malaria with an App
Dzekashu MacViban Though its death toll is dropping, Malaria still remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases, responsible for 500,000 deaths in 2013, which is smaller than the recorded statistics for 2010, which stood at 655,000, according to the Center…
[Music Review] Pop, Hip hop and Politics in Olamide and Phyno's 2 Kings
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Every moment chooses its music. Or maybe it’s the reverse, the music chooses its moment? Anyway, days after Oba Akiolu of Lagos issued a threat targeting Igbos, you could listen to Olamide of Akiolu’s own ethnicity on a…
On the Place of African Cinema at European Festivals
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Oris Aigbokhaevbolo investigates the politics of inclusion (and exclusion) of African movies at The Berlin Film Festival, highlighting Nollywood’s commercial approach to film-making and the problems it poses. The opening sentence of an article in a recent edition…
[Music Review] Ibeyi’s Hypnotic, Kaleidoscopic Debut
Dzekashu MacViban Ibeyi; Feb 17, 2015. XL Recordings. When I first watched the unsettling video for “River” by Ibeyi ( [pronounced ee-bey-ee] made up of Cuban-born, Paris-based twin sisters, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz), on Okayafrica, I was first confused,…
Q & A with Awes A. Osman on Books, Conflict & Displacement
A few months ago we featured an excerpt of Awes A. Osman’s novel, Skinless Goat in Somalia, as part of #100daysofafricanreads. The book was inspired by Awes Osman’s student days in India and focuses on the story of an Indian…
Strangers on the Train by Abiola Oni
A journey through central London by tube, full of flashbacks and loss, as well as the shadow of Lagos, and a meditation on relationships with strangers.
The Simpsons and the Challenge of Portraying Believable Nigerian Characters
In the second part of an on-going project on The Simpsons, we asked bloggers, writers, cultural thinkers and academics to comment on the episode “The Princess Guide” [s26 e15]. Below is a selection of the comments, with an introduction by Dzekashu MacViban.