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My Original Sin Against Wole Soyinka – Maja-Pearce

By Adewale Maja-Pearce I was recently the recipient of what one writer called ‘a devastating public verbalassault’ by Wole Soyinka. The occasion was an interview with Sahara Reporters, inthe course of which I was tagged as a ‘sterile literary upstart’, ‘an inept hustler’, ‘anignoble character’, and ‘an empty, notoriety-hungry hanger-on and upstartsearching for relevance’. My original… Read more

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A colonist discovers the Igbo

By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu Before Reverend George T. Basden arrived Onitsha at the turn of the 19th century, the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria had long been ‘discovered’. Thanks to the apocryphal ‘discovery of the embouchure of the Niger’ by the Lander brothers. In fact, the Royal Niger Company had been administering that general area… Read more

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Author Profile: Adewale Maja-Pearce

Adewale Maja-Pearce tends to describe himself as an Anglo-Nigerian. Born of a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Maja-Pearce spent his childhood and teenage years in Lagos before returning to the U.K. for his university education in the 1970s. It was there that his writing career took off with the publication of Loyalties and Other Stories… Read more

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Author Profile: Juliet Ezenwa Maja-Pearce

For many years , Ezenwa Maja-Pearce was just content to paint, exploring a variety of themes including childhood, maidenhood and everyday life, capturing scenes we tend not to notice because they’ve become too familiar. Then through her work and interactions with other artists, she came to the realization that the issues of current concern in… Read more

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Author Profile: Timi Spiff

Fresh from the prestigious Jackson School of Mass Communications at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Inatimi Spiff in the mid 1980s, Spiff found work as a reporter at the Enugu-based New Outlook newspaper, then as Lagos correspondent for the Kaduna based Today newspaper before joining the Daily Times Group as a senior reporter with TimesWeek… Read more

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War Games (Excerpts)

Grandpa always did his best to please us, just as Mama always did her best to please him. She gave himfrom the meals she cooked and he gave us one farm produce or the other, and every other day a livechicken. I later discovered that the chickens came from his numerous clients for Grandpa was… Read more

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