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No Bobo! No Zobo! (Part One)

October 31, 2022

By Toyin Falola Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Have you seen or pictured a

Musk takes over Twitter, sacks top executives

October 28, 2022

Elon Musk has concluded his $44billion takeover of Twitter. He has reportedly fired several top executives, including the CEO Parag Agrawal. The world’s richest man in a tweet said,

‘Anikulapo’ is Netflix’s most-watched non-English film

October 28, 2022

A week after its premiere, Anikulapo, a film by Kunle Afolayan, has become the most-watched non-English film on Netflix. Owing to the huge success it has garnered, Afolayan said

Conversations with Prof Dasylva: Biography, Spirituality, Activism and Scholarship

October 25, 2022

By Toyin Falola Prof Dasylva I borrowed the title of this piece from the 146-page book edited by a pentad: Sola Olorunyomi, Olutoyin Jegede, Mobolanle Sotunsa, Rotimi Fasan, and

Africa: Ideologies and Narrations

September 26, 2022

By Toyin Falola Africa’s history cuts across the ancient period, precolonial formations, slavery, colonial, post-colonial, and developmental stages hatched and told by both African and foreign scholars. Today, countless

AFRICAN LITERATURE SHOULD BE WRITTEN BY AFRICANS IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES, SAYS WA THIONG’O

September 26, 2022

By Wale Okediran Veteran Writer, Prof Ngugi Wa Thiong’o has reiterated his well-known position on the use of Language in African Literature with a new charge to African

President of Ukraine in auto crash

September 15, 2022

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been involved in a car crash. However, reports say he suffered no serious injuries. The accident according to his press secretary, occurred early Thursday morning

Crowds Gather As Queen’s Coffin Goes On Display In London

September 14, 2022

King Charles III leads a procession of the coffin of his mother Queen Elizabeth II through London on Wednesday before hundreds of thousands of people pay their final respects. Six

Monica Cheru on Rethinking African Literature

September 13, 2022

By Toyin Falola (This is the final interview report with a panel of African writers on August 7. For the transcripts: YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GN6IcDGTAzE Facebook: https://fb.watch/eLOPycx-MF/) In an

JAPA!

September 2, 2022

By Toyin Falola Flee! Japa does not mean to walk away. It is to flee from danger or a compromising situation. It means fleeing an abusive relationship, an

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