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Jagua Nana’s Daughters
Some topics make you have premature writer’s block, not because you don’t know what to write about but more because you suffer a creative blockage in struggling with how to take it on. This I...
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Who wears the mask?
The column this week is aligned to the last post. It’s no coincidence that I choose to be responsive to an issue that had reoccurred in the media last week. International media captured the ongoing...
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Marriage is a Private Affair
‘… when it comes to marriage, it’s not that simple’ Nnaemeka said in Achebe’s ‘Marriage is a private affair’. I believe him, considering the different dynamics the marriage concept has produced over...
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Is the Marriage Market Stillborn?
‘… If the bride price is not paid, the bride will die at childbirth’. These words thwarted every ambition for happiness, progressive living and well-being for the character ‘Akunna’ in Buchi Emecheta’s...
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Our Grand Mother’s Drum
I love Mark Hudson the Journalist, but I love more his semi-fiction novel ‘Our Grandmother’s drum’ which bridged the gap between travel and fiction writing. It is the story of the lives of women of the...
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The Stranger with a One Eyed Box
Reading the Lion and the Jewel as a child, I saw an old Bale Baroka that was in contest with Lakunle to marry the otherwise beautiful Sidi. That was all I saw. Reading this rather complex drama with so...
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Is Marriage Still a Private Affair?
For over 172 hours, the French parliament and senate engaged in a heated debate. It was followed with furious clashes and near fist-fights in the National Assembly; the bone of contention was the bill...
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Broken English
Ken Saro-wiwa, Hmmnnn! His murder was a travesty to modern day Justice, his death by hanging made him an iconic casualty of a capitalist world. But maybe we can do him justice by validating the causes...
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Death and the King’s Horseman
The Praise singers said to Elesin “Elesin, we placed the reins of the world in your hands, yet you watched it plunge over the edge of the bitter precipice. You sat with folded arms while evil strangers...
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To Ihuoma and Others alike
Ihuoma is a beautiful woman, she is a village sweetheart, but she has a stain. No, it’s not the stain of blood; it’s the stain of widowhood. She is not just a widow; she is a serial widow with more...
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Like a Giant Panda…
When I think of the football, I always remember the Giant Panda. It may be because of its widespread adoption as a mascot for football games, but then again, no! I also remember the Orca killer whale...
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Writing in the Field…
Fiction writing comes alive with a lot of creativity. Be it prose or poetry, the creativity which a writer weaves into it, is often sparked or ignited. One of the triggers for creative writing I know...
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I wanted the Queen back, but now the King is gone!
Picture from http://www.ezakwantu.com Dear Madiba, I wonder why I did not get into the social media excitement of mourning you! After a deep introspection at the wave and frenzy given to your demise...
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Who is an African?
We become a ghost when we have no identity, this is true. But choosing our identity can mean sitting on the horns of a dilemma where we struggle to fit into many social boxes that just don’t fit our...
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Am I colour-blind or is it a grey street?
fictioningdevelopment:Today, Billions of People are participating in the One Billion Rising Campaign. ‘One Billion Rising’ is a global campaign to end to violence against women, rise for justice and...
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Africa’s Third Liberation
It’s midnight Saturday 15th of March 2014, some families stayed awake with grief stricken faces. Close to twenty of their young graduates who left them that morning for the National Immigration Service...
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Writing Violence…
While working on a short story on domestic violence recently, I was privileged to get a colleague review it. ‘It lacks suspense, no action, not gripping, it fell flat like a biography’, this was his...
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Is Sizwe Bansi Dead?
When a piece of writing gets you a space in jail, then it stroke a very sensitive cord for the incumbent government. The texture of such writing, are absurd, dealing with surreal subject matters....
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Do They Hear When You Cry?
Oasis Academy Hadley #FightforYashika Campaign For many social causes that make headlines these days, there is an individual at the center to humanize it. In most cases they enjoy the support of their...
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Black Boy!
Every time I read Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy’, I wished it was fiction; fiction because ‘Black Boy’ is not a pretty book. This reality told from the eye of a teenage black boy was too disturbing to...
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