A CONVERSATION WITH OBA LAMIDI ADEYEMI III, PART 2
Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III: On History, his Kingdom, and the Yoruba By Toyin Falola This is the interview report with the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, on October 24, 2021. For the transcripts, see: Facebook: https://fb.watch/8RtsH8UVn8/ and YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-MEj8qr0ls History is innocent to the […]
Beyond the cover-up
By Olayinka Oyegbile The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them – Elena Gorokhova (Lies and the Hail of Bullets #ENDSARS The Story of Lekki Shootings by Survivors, CAPPA, 2021) Tuesday, […]
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A CONVERSATION WITH TUNDE KELANI ON CORDELIA PART 1
PART 1 Femi Osofisan’s Cordelia: A Short Fiction of Fused Literary Genres By Toyin Falola On November 5th, 2021, at 8 pm, Tunde Kelani will premiere his latest movie. This is a rare world premiere to be integrated with a live symphony by the University of Delaware. Global personalities, such […]
A CONVERSATION WITH ALAO ADEDAYO, PART 2
Musa Adedayo and Alaroye: The Future of Yoruba Language (This is the report on the interview with Mr Alao Adedayo on October 17, 2021. For the transcript, see: Facebook: https://fb.watch/8I5ow-akVZ/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/egEclMgd3fY/) By Toyin Falola Different cultural traditions are threatened as stronger states of the world compete for supremacy. The struggle caused each […]
2023 Presidency: Who is Afraid of Ndigbo?
By Jude Obuseh In a statement issued last week Monday, Media Mogul, Raymond Dokpesi, of DAAR Communications, opined that the agitation for Biafra by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has limited the chances of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President. According to Dokpesi, some Nigerians were of the […]
CAPPA seeks justice for Lekki tollgate shooting victims
*Launches book on #Endsars one year after One year after the protests tagged #Endsars that gripped the country last year, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has presented to the public a documentation of some of the victims of the event. Speaking at the presentation of a book and film documentary LIES AND […]
A Journey of Guided Discovery: A Review of James Yeku’s Where the Baedeker Leads
By Toyin Falola The first time I started to read James Yeku’s poetry collection, I wondered why he chose that title for his book. First off, not many people would know what a Baedeker means. However, the earliest glimmer of revelation hit me, and some tens of pages into the collection, the revelation was […]
A CONVERSATION WITH OBA LAMIDI ADEYEMI III, PART 1
ALAAFIN ADEYEMI III: THE THRONE OF NUMEROUS AUTHORITIES By Toyin Falola Ikú Bàbá Yèyé Royal positions in Africa, especially in the pre-colonial time, were not necessarily because the beneficiaries of such exalted hierarchy inherited it by birth. Of course, being born into a royal family places one within the circumference of the […]
Simi’s “Woman”: An Explosive Tool for Social Change
By Toyin Falola Explosive—that’s one word that aptly describes Simisola Bolatito Kosoko’s latest single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udnkr-pMRa8 Better known by her stage name, Simi, this amazon of an African musician has yet proven the strength and quality of her musical renditions. “Explosive” must be an apt appellation for a song that has garnered close to a million […]
TOYIN FALOLA PRIZE 2021 SHORTLIST RELEASED
The administrators of the Toyin Falola short stories prize have announced the names of six writers from the 11 earlier shortlisted. A statement today said, “Following the feedback of our judges and readers on the longlist, we do not doubt any of the stories making the shortlist, and this particularly emphasizes the quality of stories […]
