“It is quite a while since I sensed creative promise on this level,” said Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on reading “Foreign Gods Inc.”, the recent novel by outspoken Nigerian writer Okey Ndibe. We sat with Okey to discuss the book, Chinua Achebe and immigrant life.
Lifestyle Black in the closet – Homoerotic photography
An explicit homoerotic photographic exhibition of black men in the South African National Gallery hardly attracts any public attention, while governments elsewhere in Africa whip up homophobia. But South Africa itself remains full of contradictions on the issue.
Lifestyle Malawi wealth-seeker loses genitals to hyena
The money crazed man aged between 20 and 24, who was admitted to Ward B at Chipata General Hospital, said he lost his body parts following a witchdoctor’s instructions on how to attain wealth
Lifestyle Cape Town Jazz Festival: skin deep?
Arts and Culture New African Photography: J. D. Kannah (DRC)
Politics and Society Zimbabwe boycotts EU summit over First Lady visa
President Mugabe’s wife, Grace, left out of EU Africa summit as EU fails to “reach consensus” on her
Lifestyle Madonna To Direct Adaptation Of ‘Ade: A Love Story’ in Kenya
The 55 year-old pop icon has been approached to direct the big-screen adaptation of Rebecca Walker’s debut novel ‘Ade: A Love Story.’ The ‘Like A Virgin’ singer, who made her directing debut with 2008’s ‘Filth and Wisdom’, will be working […]
Politics and Society World Bank lends Kenya $204 to fix airport
World Bank has approved a Sh17.5 billion ($203.5 million) loan geared towards the reconstruction of Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) arrivals terminal which was destroyed by a fire disaster in August last year. The fire left thousands of travellers […]
Arts and Culture White Barbie, out! Queens of Africa, in
Something is terribly wrong when a Nigerian girl like myself grows up craving white Barbie dolls. Girls all over Africa crave the same today, and this far from harmless. Fortunately Nigerians are starting to produce dolls that look like us.