Arts

Anton Wilhelm Amo: Our Ancestral Philosopher

October 14, 2024

By Toyin Falola The invitation to give the 2024 Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture at the University of Ghana must start by paying homage to the man whose name honours this

We Age While They Grow – Part 2

September 30, 2024

By Toyin Falola I have come to be a tail Without weapons but watching, guarding, and guiding These, who are “my girls” Both the old, the not-too-old, and the children

The Known, the Unknown, and the Future of African Knowledge

September 23, 2024

By Toyin Falola I remain grateful to Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, who sent me a copy of his co-edited book with Professor Katharina Schramm, published in the Africa Multiple Series by

Echoes of Eternity: A Review of Mohammad Ohitoto Hussein’s FOREVER

September 2, 2024

By Sumaila Isah Umaisha ‘Life is short’ is a cliché used by many to describe the transient nature of life. Looking at it from a physical or material perspective, one

Inyang wins Toyin Falola Prize

August 26, 2024

Divine Inyang Titus has been announced as the 2024 Toyin Falola Prize winner with his entry “Fibers from the Deep” A statement by the organisers said, “Divine becomes the second

WE MUST AGE WHILE THEY GROW!

August 15, 2024

By Toyin Falola As the sailor of time paddles away The soft and heavy breeze from the running tides The whistling of the deep And the splashes of the bow’s

Why I sing in Yoruba, by Asake

August 13, 2024

Ace Afrobeat music star, Ahmed Ololade, aka, Asake, says he feels more ‘comfortable’ expressing himself in Yoruba in his songs. The ‘Mr Money With The Vibes’ crooner said this during

By Bimbo Esho Cerebral, charismatic, handsome, humorous, jovial, polished, refined, smooth, suave, urbane, trailblazer etc. are words that best describe you dad. When the history of Music, especially regarding our

The rain of life

August 5, 2024

We are victims of evil customs – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (A review of Sunny Eze’s If the Rain Comes, Kraft Books) By Olayinka Oyegbile Society has from time immemorial been

MUSINGS FROM HOMELAND

August 5, 2024

By Prince Dotun OyeladeFor anyone who grew up in Ogbomoso in the fourties and the fifties as I did and rascally enough to have the effrontery passing through the dog-infested

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