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Sunday, March 30, 2014

To All Mothers--On Uka Nne

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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...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The Two Shall Become One Flesh (Part 2)

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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...
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The Two Shall Become One Flesh (Part 1)

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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...
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Love is Sacrifice

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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 ...
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Remember, You're Dust...

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It was quite a sight on Wednesday, 22 February (2012), as many Christians showed up at different places, offices, banks, hospitals, bus-...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Francis: The Pope After My Own Heart

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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 ...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The 3Ws of Nollywood: Women, Wealth, and Witchcraft

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Critics often upbraid Nollywood for what they term its "thematic obsession" with the occult world, obscenity, prostitution, and mo...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

That Ellen's Record Oscar Selfie

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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...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Nollywood and Nigeria's Cultural Diplomacy

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

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Nollywood once again recently took center stage on an international platform to further the socio-cultural discourse it frames and represent...
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And the Oscar goes to Lupita Nyong'o!!!

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Lupita Nyong'o, the stunning, ever-smiling Kenyan actress, won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Nyong...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

Funmi Iyanda's Open Letter to Nigerian Youth

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Recently, Funmi Iyanda delivered a Keynote Address at the ThinkOyo 30under30 Awards, challenging Nigeria’s emerging young intellectual el...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Africa: My Story, Your History

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I shared this piece in 2002 with my junior secondary one social studies students in Lagos, Nigeria, whose ignorance of basic African hist...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Of Leaders and Leadership

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Recently, a very good friend of mine, a scholar and director of a center for African leadership and development in an African university, ...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Redefines "Feminist"

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In this amazing  +TEDxEuston   talk , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie draws brilliantly from her "happy," "African," and ...
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NollyCulture – a curating forum at the intersection of media, religion, and culture – explores Nollywood, the cinema of Nigeria, and its framings of religion and culture in contemporary Africa as well as the traditions, worldviews, and debates that inform its perspectives and representations.
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