The opening lines of Adedayo Agarau’s poetry chapbook The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020) goes: “broken every time the door opens/or is banged against your face/you can count your losses/but do you remember my name?” The poem is titled “look how far i’ve come,” and the reader will most likely pause after reading […]
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Writing Your Other: A Concise Guide for White Writers | Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Controversies surrounding White appropriation of Black and Brown cultures seem to pop up every few weeks. The most recent one surrounds American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings, who claims she is only guilty of giving a face to “the faceless brown mass” of Mexican immigrants at the US border. To which her critics counter that she […]
Photos | Five Jordan, an Arts for Social Change Collective, Launches in Abuja with Event Celebrating City of Jos & Richard Ali’s Novel
BY RAFEEAT ALIYU Five Jordan, a new arts for social development collective, was formally launched on 31 January 2020, at an event that drew the Nigerian capital city’s diplomatic, cultural, military, and political elite. The event, tagged “An Evening in Jos,” is the first of the collective’s City Series. The city of Jos is located […]
Local Words Should Be Represented in Nigerian Literature: In Conversation with Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Consultant on Nigerian English for the Oxford English Dictionary
Recently, the Oxford English Dictionary recognized West African English, bringing its number of World Englishes to 15. It further added 29 new Nigerian words in its latest update. One of the Dictionary’s consultants on Nigerian English is the academic Kingsley Ugwuanyi, who also provided some information on the pronunciation of West African English. Ugwuanyi’s current […]
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