Sunday, August 02, 2015

The "Great Journey" of Ile-Ife's "Great Crown"

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Source: exploringafrica "In the history of Ile-Ife, 1903 was an earth-shattering year for the yoruba people. It was the year that t...

Orisha--Triumphing Territorial Challenges

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Source: fineartamerica.com "Currently, new religious movements active in Ile-Ife are engaging in a second wave of missionary effor...

Ile-Ife: City of 201 Gods

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Photo source: wikipedia "In T he Pivot of Four Quarters , Wheatley indicates that no place in sub-Saharan Africa has such cosmic si...
Friday, July 31, 2015

A Letter From Home

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Source: mackieandtate.weebly.com ( E. C. Osondu )-- My Dear Son,  Why have you not been sending money through Western Union like othe...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Corruption Wars: Pro & Anti Camps One & the Same

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" Permit me the excesses of generalisation to say that while Nigerians like to mouth anti-corruption rhetoric, we are actually pro-c...

Literature, Widsom, and Freedom

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Source: s1.hubimg.com “The first freedom is mental freedom. We have to seize the freedom to be what we can be, to write whatever we wan...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Street Art with a Message of Hope and Peace

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( TED )--What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a messag...

Nollywood and Business Moguls Celebrate Yes! Magazine @ 4

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The Azuh siblings, L-R: Arinze (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Yes! Int'l magazine), Lilian, Fr. Chijioke, Amatus (Publisher/Editor-in-Ch...
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Africa: Tradition versus Modernity

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Source: New African ( New African )--Visiting a museum in Auckland, New Zealand, a colleague and I were impressed by a battle-ready Mao...

Writing Africa to the World

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Source: faithmwaura.com What role should African literature play in presenting the continent to the world? "To write truthfully, ...
Monday, July 20, 2015

"I Always Mispronounce My Name...I'm Reclaiming the Original"

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Source: anglianwater ( The Guardian )-- The Facebook name-pronunciation feature made me realize that, after a lifetime of code-switchin...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Nollywood Thesis Earns 1st Class at Cambridge

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Precious Oyelade; source: voice-online.co.uk ( The Voice )-- A CAMBRIDGE graduate has impressed academics with her dissertation on Nige...

Nollywood: In Promotion of Pan-Africanism

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Source: Switsalone ( MarkLives )-- Pan-Africanism is defined by “the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Afri...

Book Review: Trends in Nollywood

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Source: amazon.com ( ThisDay )--My first contact with a Nigerian movie was in 1977. I grew up near a Cinema Hall and the Urban Communit...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Africa's History Through Colonial Films

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Source: thisisafrica.com ( This is Africa )--Colonial Film presents “moving images of the British empire” for the viewing pleasure of a...