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Henry Akubuiro is a journalist and creative writer, whose play, Yamtarawala, the Warrior King, has been longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas. A novelist, playwright, short story writer, poet and biographer, he is the author of prose narratives –Prodigals in Paradise, Vershima and the Missing Cow, Adventures […]

Professor Omotoso was a member of an endangered specie of African literary giants who gave their lives to our spirit of Afrocentrism.

There are legions of civil servants in our post-independence history, who were frustrated and forced to resign.

Examining these actions through alternative perspectives could illuminate often-overlooked aspects of these communication blocks.

Dismantling the commonwealth is not a heroic anti-colonial act. It’s akin to cutting your nose to spite your face.

African university auctions PhDs and degrees to the highest bidder. Bodies such as CUE, without shame, give legitimacy to these fakes.

The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home 13 Feb 2021 Songs of revolt: The world-renowned literary critic and broadcaster Lewis Nkosi was born in Durban in 1936. (Victor Dlamini) Ten years after his death in Johannesburg, Lewis Nkosi’s work allows us to critique the country’s worsening fault lines, in the hope of animating all South Africans towards strengthening the fight against endemic historical injustices and poor service delivery. Anchored on issues of colonialism, race, c...