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Is Nigerian English in Oxford Dictionary Blowback or Consolidation of Colonialism?

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Blowback, Chinua Achebe, LAFA, OED, Oluada Equiano, William WilberforceNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer news that some 29 words essentially of Nigerian origin in usage have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, (OED), a powerful learning tool. But what might that mean? i... Read more

Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2019In: People in ActionTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Decolonisation, English, French, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PortugueseNo CommentsViews:

The first part of this interview published on this platform September 9th was titled “Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor”. The t... Read more

APGA Taking Over Nasarawa State, Breaking APC, PDP Monopoly of National Electoral Space?

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2019In: SpectacleTags: APGA, Chinua AchebeNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) which have dominated the on-going electioneering campaign in Nigeria in terms of huge rally... Read more

Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Aime Cesaire, Capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Colonialism in Africa, Decolonisation of education, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Globalectics, Home, Literature, Mau Mau, neocolonialism, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Writing in EnglishNo CommentsViews:

Interveiw By Mahdi Ganjavi, Ngugi Wa Thiongo needs no introduction in the world of Letters. Except the dosage of post modernist lexicons observable in his language, the critical postcolonia... Read more

Nigerian Elite: On the Path of Reconciliation or of Mutual Assured Destruction, (MAD)?

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Chinua Achebe, Iron Law of Oligarchy, Julius Berger, Senator Murray-BruceNo CommentsViews:

Nigerian Elite: On the Path of Reconciliation or of Mutual Assured Destruction, (MAD)? It is certain to be such a mighty and welcome entertainment were it to happen that any two of Generals... Read more

Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Bala Usman, Chinua Achebe, Jigawa State, NEPU, NPC, NPN, PRP, Sule Lamido, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria By Adagbo ONOJA A few days ago, someone circulated an existing picture of the graveside of Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi... Read more

So, Who Has Won the Buhari/Obama Debate on Strong Leaders Versus Strong Institutions in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Father of the nation', Chinua Achebe, Professor Peter Ekeh, Strong leaders Versus Strong institutions' debate, Structure-agency debateNo CommentsViews:

So, Who Has Won the Buhari/Obama Debate on Strong Leaders Versus Strong Institutions in Africa? Many Nigerians would not have forgotten the sharp exchange on ‘Strong leader Versus Strong Ins... Read more

Ayi Kwei Armah or Meja Mwangi May Win the Nobel Prize Before Ngugi Wa Thiongo?

Posted By: adminon: October 15, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Chinua Achebe, Mwangi, Nadine Gordimer, Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano, Prof Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Wole Soyinka won it. That is the Nobel Prize for Literature. That was great for Africa for the very reason that breaking into that cultural brick wall is a... Read more

Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami, Cardinal Anthony Okogie, CBN, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, General Gowon, Goodluck Jonathan, Mohammadu Buhari, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y Danjuma1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA Would President Buhari not benefit from exploring the similarities between his and Ezeulu’s situation as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God? This is the question observ... Read more