
Toyin Falola: A dancing mask and his footprints
By Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju “You cannot stand in one spot to watch a dancing mask,” states an Igbo proverb quoted by the novelist Chinua Achebe. You need to watch

By Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju “You cannot stand in one spot to watch a dancing mask,” states an Igbo proverb quoted by the novelist Chinua Achebe. You need to watch

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession – Robert Graves Poetry as an art has been with man from time immemorial and various forms and nuances

PART 3: AYINLA: THE MAN WHO BECAME A FILM By Toyin Falola Omowura with the famous Olumo Rock in the background It was in one of our

Mathematical 7 Goes on Stage: Segun Odegbami, Abeokuta, and the Making of “Ayinla” by Tunde Kelani Kelani and Odegbami ABEOKUTA: THE PATH TO “AYINLA” By Toyin Falola

By Olayinka Oyegbile Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now ― Alan Lakein There is nothing like good

PART 2: LITERATURE AND CINEMA IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA PART A: THE INTERVIEW Let me start with a most basic question: why African Cinema and how important is

PART 1: A PRODIGOUS CAREER By Toyin Falola Several intellectuals have dedicated their research studies on Africa and Africans by exploring various African experiences. Not many, however, have concentrated

As long as we can read, we can travel, we can escape, we can explore, we can laugh, we can cry and we can grapple with life’s mysteries – Duchess

Renowned Writer, John Pepper Clark, popularly called J.P. Clark, is dead. He died at the age of 85. In a statement signed by Prof. C. C. Clark, for the family

Seven years after her last novel Americanah, multiple award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is to release a new book on October 27th. The title of the new book is Zikora.
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