Memories of the Ogoni Tragedy

The 17th edition of the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight compatriots over three long days in November 2015. The event whose theme was entitled, ‘Texts of Self-Determination’- a reference to the Ogoni quest for semi-autonomy- had elaborate readings of his work, discussions of books by various other authors on his life and work, more discussions of books on Nigeria and the events that led to Saro-Wiwa’s unfortunate fate and a host of varied cultural activities involving poetry, dance and music. Sometimes, it felt like too much within a short period of time. There was even a couple of literary competitions, one for the best review of a literary work by Saro-Wiwa and the other by school children honing their writing skills

Book Review: Luci Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

Review of Luci Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi by Vu Trong Phung

Book Review: Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain

Review of Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain by Deborah Cohle

Naked Light and the Blind Eye

At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a contrast to his encroaching existential gloom only to speed up the pace of his total collapse. Sanya Oshas cult novel beams a searchlight on what it feels like to survive personally and collectively in unyielding tropical malaise. This web of a narrative pits the rural versus the urban, tradition against modernity with a gallery of immortal characters and with a yearning that sings lushly of freedom

Spectralizing Bergson and the dilemmas of decolonization. A review of Messay Kebede, Africa\'s quest for a philosophy of decolonization, 2004

No Abstract.Africa Development Vol. XXX(3) 2005: 135–14

Violence and Decay within the Nigerian University System: Notes from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso

The alarming deterioration within the entire Nigerian university system has been sufficiently documented in academic publications and the Nigerian mass media. Evidently, this factor alone may lead one to the conclusion that fresh perspectives on the Nigerian university crisis are unavailable. This viewpoint, however, as this study seeks to establish, is rather erroneous. This is because the crises ravaging the rank and file of the Nigerian university system are being compounded by the day, su..

Review article The Frontier of Interculturality. A review of Wim van Binsbergen\'s Intercultural Encounters: African and Anthropological Lessons towards a Philosophy of Interculturality (2003)

No Abstract Available Africa Development Vol. XXX (1&2) 2005: 239-25

The value of outsiderdom, or, anthropology’s folly

Beitrag zur "Debate on Anthropology in Africa" in Africa Spectrum

Review Essay A history of colonialism through post-colonial lenses: reading Mahmood Mamdani's citizen and subject

No Abstract.The Nigerian Journal of Economic History Vol. 2, 1999: 155-16