Features and Essays

June 12
Should We Actually Celebrate June 12 As Nigeria’s Democracy Day?

If June 12 means anything, it cannot simply be that Nigerians once demanded democracy. It…

Jamir Nazir
[Opinion] Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth-Winning Story “The Serpent in the Grove”: A Beautifully Told Story or an AI Mash-Up Job?

Can we say that between the prize and the story and Jamir Nazir, there is…

African Filmmaking
African Filmmaking at the Crossroads of Oscars Reform and AI Ethics

For African cinema, the pathway expansion is a blessing in disguise at first glance. It…

EndSars
The Comment Section Republic: Where Does the Nigerian Anger Go?

Expression and accountability are not the same thing, and the architecture of every major social…

essay
A Voyage and An Exploration: What An Essay Is

The essayist must take a position: political neutrality is hardly a thing that makes a…

Skincare
Skin Is Skinning: How Nigeria’s Skincare Culture Became a Movement and a Market

The straw of the thriving skincare business in Nigeria could also be traced to the…

The Yoruba Traitor as Political Construction: A Response to Sam Omatseye’s “The Yoruba Traitors”

Institutionally, it is perhaps best ethical if Sam Omatseye and The Nation pay silence to…

nigerian novels
Interior Is a Country: On Nigerian Novels and the Limits of the Screen

Nigerian novels are not unfinished blueprints awaiting visual realisation. They are finished architectures of thought.…

Ernest Jesuyemi
The Poet’s Convenient Martyrdom (A Rejoinder to Ernest Jesuyemi’s “The Wrong Kind of Black Poet”)

What Ernest Jesuyemi genuinely wants is a literary culture capacious enough to hold divergent, even…

Children of Blood and Bone
[Opinion]: Who and What Does the “Children of Blood and Bone” Film Adaptation Really Represent?

Fascination can very easily translate to an obsession over aesthetics at the expense of a…