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For a mildly irritating piece in the New York Times on Arise magazine and its equivalents, click here. The ignorance of its opening paragraph is quite shocking. Allow me to quote:"Sub-Saharan Africa does not bring to mind an image of a woman with perfectly manicured nails flipping through glossy magazines... [view entry]
Priya Ramrakha was a Kenyan photographer/journalist killed 41 years ago while covering the Nigerian civil war for Time-Life. The link takes you to a New York Times page with a trailer for the film "Africa Lens: the story of Priya Ramrakha" (towards the bottom of the page). The Priya Foundation... [view entry]
A friend will shortly be interviewing Wole Soyinka at a literary festival. Rather than generate the questions solo, the proposal is that you, my blog readers, send in your questions. What would you like to ask the great Kongi? Please leave your questions in the comments along with your name,... [view entry]
Nigerian photo of the week: Mr Segun Ajayi brings his severed leg to the Ekiti Election Tribunal. The leg had been kept in the morgue. After the court appearance, the leg was given a good funeral.. [view entry]
By Asma’u Joda & Iheoma Obibi Grace Ushang was a young Nigerian woman who had every right to expect a bright future. Now she is dead merely because she was female. On the day that Nigeria celebrated its 49th Independence Anniversary on 1 October 2009, NEXT Newspaper reported that Ms... [view entry]
INCUBATION from Martin Hampton on Vimeo.Eight 3-Minute-Wonders (originally shown on Channel 4 in the UK) by Martin Hampton (my former student at The Bartlett) exploring life in and around the Microsoft on site creche in their Reading headquarters.They look at the science of Human Resource Management from the point of... [view entry]
The more loyal readers of this blog will recall the post about Dan Hoyle's one-man show stateside. My Lagos moles tell me he is on his way to naija again to perform the same show in the Motherland. I have only heard of one show - at the US GQ... [view entry]
Nice little blog about the exhibition that toured Lemi Ghariokwu's pieces in the UK recently. [view entry]
