The History Nigeria is Fighting to Erase
I belong to the generation unable to study an expurgated history of Nigeria.
Susan Sontag: Out and In
Sontag wasn't drawn to write about AIDS because she was (sometimes) homosexual, but because she had been thinking about the ways disease, including her own, is talked about.
Homo Oblivious
Yesterday’s “Soviet Man” has morphed into today’s “Amnesiac Man”. Homo Sovieticus has mutated into Homo Oblivious.
Grow Old and Be Strong
I watched my 85-year-old wife, hunched over her red three-wheel walker as she pushed towards the line of twenty Military Police dressed in full riot gear.
Aristo and the Friendly Forest Squirrels
Once again, we are dragged into a race between man vs. machine.
New Year’s Letter to Oksana Zabuzhko
What can we, as writers, offer a world appearing to invite another universal catastrophe, this time on an unprecedented scale?
Covering the Head to Save the Head
She had become a liability for all groups: those for whom she was too Muslim and for those to whom she was not Muslim enough.
What is a Homeland?
What I try to convince myself of is that this is temporary, and one day the hope of peace will shine on every roofless house in my country.