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ABU, Zaria Literary Philosopher, Muazu Maiwada, Speaks on State of Writing in Nigeria Today

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Abubakar Imam, Achebe, Acholonu, Ahmadu Bello University, ANA, Chike Obi, Clark, Creative writing, Gimba, Kasimu Yero, Nelly Uchendu, Ojaide, Osundare, Poetry, Soyinka, TutuolaNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Literary Philosopher, Muazu Maiwada, Speaks on State of Writing in Nigeria Today

LiteratureVoice conducted this interview which Intervention finds re-publishable mainly because of one question: the state of writing in Nigeria today. Why are there no Achebes, Soyinkas, JP... Read more

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Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:
Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

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An Inspector-General of Police @ a Time Like This!

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2023In: GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Giwa, Paris School of Security Studies, Soyinka, Sunday Adewusi, ‘Disco criticism’No CommentsViews:
An Inspector-General of Police @ a Time Like This!

By Adagbo Onoja President Bola Tinubu is still playing the appointments card by which Nigerians tend to judge the direction of an incoming president. So far, his score card is not reading ba... Read more

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Wonders of the African World?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: 'Wonders of the African World', Ali Mazrui, Biodun Jeyifo, Haiti, Henry Louis Gates, Kenya, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Wonders of the African World?

Many must have forgotten about the brouhaha over the television series ‘Wonders of the African World’ between the late Ali Mazrui on the one hand and Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo and Henry Lo... Read more

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Nigeria’s Poetic Battle Group in Surgical Performance on Ethnicity, Abuja and Chris Okigbo

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Abuja, Achebe, British colonialists, Nigerian State, Okigbo, Shakespeare, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Poetic Battle Group in Surgical Performance on Ethnicity, Abuja and Chris Okigbo

It is a poetic battle group with commitments to literary instrumentalism. We call them a battle group similar to a Carrier/Naval counterpart because they are all practitioners of Literature... Read more

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A Postmodern Coup in Nigerian Literature

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, ANA, Nigerian State, Postmodern, Soyinka1 CommentViews:
A Postmodern Coup in Nigerian Literature

Those who think that the literary intervention in Nigerian politics started and stopped with the Chinua Achebes, Wole Soyinkas, JP Clark, Vincent Ike, Elechi Amadi and so on had better go fo... Read more

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In Search of the Tribe of Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubuike

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2020In: People in ActionTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', 2nd National Development Plan, Chinweiture, Cosmopolitanism, media globalisation, MIT, Multi-culturalism, Soyinka, WINNo CommentsViews:
In Search of the Tribe of Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubuike

A literature review exercise for an essay brought the tribe to memory. They were, indeed, a tribe, a tribe of intellectual hostage taking but in a critical and Afrocentric sense of that. The... Read more

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Dr Egar is Right on Achebe, Soyinka – Dr Tivlumum Nyitse

Posted By: adminon: December 05, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Achebe, JP Clark, Nnoka, Okonkwo, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Dr Egar is Right on Achebe, Soyinka – Dr Tivlumum Nyitse

Intervention’s interview with Dr. Emmanuel Egar, Veritas University, Abuja literary critic and his main contention that Achebe messed up Africa in his Things Fall Apart has, predictably, con... Read more

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A Novel as Flashback to the Years of Innocence, Gender Contestation, Reconciliation And Happiness

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Achebe, Canarian Archipelago, Daraprim, Empire Day, FESTAC, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
A Novel as Flashback to the Years of Innocence, Gender Contestation, Reconciliation And Happiness

Title: The Fragrance of Roses Author: Kike Ojo Publisher: Olympia Publishers, London, 2018. Reviewers: Chukwuemeka Onukaogu and Chijioke Uwasomba (Professor of Literature, former Chair of th... Read more

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