BOYI
Boyi
Itan Lati Owo Onkowe Minage Gloria Nwaniga
Itumo Si Ede Yoruba Lati Owo Onkowe James Ogunjimi
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Maami fariya ni ojo ti Baami ti aburo mi, Boyi...
THE MYTH AND MIRTH OF BIRTH IN UCHEOMA ONWUTUEBE’S ‘ISE!’
There’s “a dark and wild region” in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and also in Ucheoma Onwutuebe’s “Ise!”; but while it is Satan that languishes...
The Ekwulekwu Monologues: CRAMPING
The Ekwulekwu Monologues: CRAMPING
This thing will not kill me in Jesus name ooooo. At all, at all... Oh my Gooooood! Where is Nkem and...
THE ART OF JOHN MADU: BEAUTY, MORPHOGENESIS, AND METAPHOR
‘Beauty is a problem for poetry because we no longer imagine beauty as a serious way of knowing,’ writes Associate Professor Lisa Samuels of...
Notes on Asikey’s Earth Attack
Notes on Asikey’s Earth Attack
Pendulum Records recording artiste Asikey George recently released "Earth Attack" a single from her forthcoming EP titled Human. As a...
Nollywood After TIFF 2016: What Next?
Hello World!
Welcome to the second edition of #SafeHouse Sessions podcast as hosted by Emil Biobelemoye Hirai-Garuba. This episode's topic: "Nollywood After TIFF 2016: What...
Posi Ayalo (The Hired Coffin)
Posi Ayalo (The Hired Coffin) by James Ogunjimi
Ayanfe, sun re o (bi o tile je wipe iku re fi mi si inu idaamu nla)....
Safe House Sessions: AmaraChik’s ‘If I Am The Government’
SafeHouse Sessions is a podcast where a couple of Nigerian film enthusiasts discuss movies, art, and entertainment in general. On the debut episode Host...
THE SWALLOWS – AND THE GAMBLE OF REBIRTH
These two months gone, I have observed that poetry can invert itself to be an emotional hallucinogen; that it can, sometimes, betray its very...
Album Review: Lives in Bracket’s Alive
Album Review: Lives in Bracket’s Alive
Bracket
From the moment an artiste takes the decision to work on an album or collect existing hit singles...
