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Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta spoke of the Joys of Motherhood in her book with the same title--the often unacknowledged labor that mot...

The Carters This journey called marriage does not just happen; it is a process, it grows.   It has to be worked at; it has to  be n...

The Obamas A certain old man had a habit of always asking his wife of many years, “Do you love me, dear?”  And as often as he asked, hi...

Valentine’s Day has come and gone; and many a love has been won and lost, many a heart healed and broken, many a relationship strengthened ...

It was quite a sight on Wednesday, 22 February (2012), as many Christians showed up at different places, offices, banks, hospitals, bus-...

In the one year that he has been the 265th successor of a first-century Galilean fisherman and known all over the world by the name of a ...

Critics often upbraid Nollywood for what they term its "thematic obsession" with the occult world, obscenity, prostitution, and mo...

The Igbo people of Nigeria have a proverb: "When a child washes clean her hands, she dines with the elders." A child is a child...

Kanayo O. Kanayo I recently obtained the beautifully written and well-argued paper presented by Kanayo O. Kanoyo at a Roundable on Cult...

Nollywood once again recently took center stage on an international platform to further the socio-cultural discourse it frames and represent...

Lupita Nyong'o, the stunning, ever-smiling Kenyan actress, won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Nyong...

Recently, Funmi Iyanda delivered a Keynote Address at the ThinkOyo 30under30 Awards, challenging Nigeria’s emerging young intellectual el...

I shared this piece in 2002 with my junior secondary one social studies students in Lagos, Nigeria, whose ignorance of basic African hist...

Recently, a very good friend of mine, a scholar and director of a center for African leadership and development in an African university, ...

In this amazing  +TEDxEuston   talk , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie draws brilliantly from her "happy," "African," and ...