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The Man Who Fought Mental Slavery
OBITUARY: Tribute to Nze Ezeoforkire Cyril Ezenwa (Obinyelugo) By Dulue Mbachu Growing up in Achina during the Civil War and immediately after, I knew Obinyelugo (Cyril as we knew him then) as an older member of the agbataobu (the neighborhood). He was one of the very few who never said a hostile word, cast an Read more
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Uwa Mgbede: An Exploration of Traditional Musical Instruments
Gerald Eze and the Ichoku Band Deliver an Electric Performance with Igbo Instruments in Uwa Mgbede Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera Every Sunday, Gerald Eze, gathers people of all ages numbering from dozens to a hundred, and regales them with his band playing new fusions of Igbo cultural music. The venue is a compound called Testimony Place Read more
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Bingo
(A short story) By The Zhuu It’s a mild evening in downtown Houston. The tall white girl in the pink and red dress is seated behind him. He is taking her home to one of the expensive, luxury apartments near Washington street, not far from downtown. Every now and then the traffic lights stop them. Read more
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A Streamside Exchange: Tribute to JP Clark
By Dulue Mbachu and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu He was better known by his initials JP. His full name was John Pepper Clarke-Bekederemo. One of the pioneers of modern Nigerian literature, who started out at the University College (later University of Ibadan) in the 1950s, with the likes of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo. Read more
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On Nigerian Art, a Second Coming
Renowned artist Jerry Buhari writes an introduction to second instalment of Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art, edited by Juliet Ezenwa-Pearce. Contemporary art in Nigerian has experienced tremendous development since its humble beginnings with colonial patronage. We recall the academic drawings and paintings of Onabolu, the almost illustrative paintings of Lasekan and the expressive elegant dancers Read more
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West Africa’s Fragile States
In Fragile States and Crisis of Regionalism in West Africa, Gbara Awanen examines the things holding the region together and the ones impeding its integration. When ECOWAS was created in 1975, its overarching ambition was to be the vehicle for the economic integration of West Africa. Nearly five decades on, that ambitious goal remains work-in-progress, Read more
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