Features and Essays
Christopher Okigbo was likewise a remarkable conversationalist. [In his interviews], he gave precise answers that…
The question is not whether Nollywood can build a star system. It’s whether it wants…
To question prayer in Nigeria is to commit spiritual arrogance. Rational inquiry reads as rebellion.…
Kenyan letters have travelled from the raptures of a Kwani? generation into a documentation age…
Poetry clarifies and enriches our lives because it can make us stop and look closely…
Kenya’s social capital, its audiences, is now a cultural weapon that determines what travels globally…
Art is where power becomes visible and legible as songs, images, or performances are the…
Mister Johnson stages colonial modernity as a cruel pedagogy—the policy of assimilation, one that teaches…
Within the contemporary cultural ferment in Africa, where art—in all its variegated forms—has taken centre…
The late Meja Mwangi’s work insisted that literature espouses life. It cannot hold every detail,…
