Section 29 and the Personhood of the Nigerian Womanhood
Nigerian lawmakers have lobbed a curveball, and the citizens have responded by swinging in anger. Sen. Yerima, in a coup at the Senate during a routine vote on renunciation of […]
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Returning Home
Nigerians abroad are returning home in droves and some are settling in Abuja, writes Chinelo Onwualu The story is a familiar one. During the political and economic crises of the […]
Nigeria’s Out-of-School Children
In this season of high wire politicking, it probably means nothing to the Nigerian ruling elite. But the social consequences might sooner, rather than later, come to consume them. According […]
Book Review: Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
THIS big, involved and ambitious novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Half Of A Yellow Sun is partly a provocation on the raw subject of race, partly a sexy, […]
Where The Vagina Counts
Mothers lay their daughters on mattresses, spread their legs as wide as “Vs,” push their fingers inside their daughters’ vaginas and measure the depth of entry into the soft mounds […]
Nigeria’s Igbo Jews: ‘Lost tribe’ of Israel?
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there […]
The Way You Make Me Feel: My Ode To Highlife
He came close, like danger. And nearly stole my heart, nearly snatched it out of its pulsating cavity. But he didn’t use his hands. He used the lazy groans of […]
Conquering Witches, Corruption And Armed Robbers
My brother propped his coarse-haired arms on the seat’s leather armrest and shook his head. “I don’t think you should go, Chika. But no one listens to me,” he said. […]
Mysticism In Traditional Yoruba Culture
“I’m training to be a Yoruba priestess,” she said with her face scrunched in utmost sincerity. The confession from the young African-American student alarmed the Nigerian students at the Georgia […]
Flooding In My Hometown
For the past six weeks, I’ve been devouring news of the flooding in Nigeria. My hometown in Nigeria’s Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) in Anambra State was one of the […]
Afrocentric Confessions 