The half-truths and painful pasts of the Riviera in Bilbao – By Maimouna Jallow

A constant throng of people flows down the wide stone walkway of the Riviera. Walkers. Joggers. Strollers. In pairs. In threes. Alone. There’s one woman with long green hair and lots of people wearing white trainers. In fact, I calculate that out of every 10, about seven wear white sports shoes. Nike. Converse. Adidas. Others…

Whoever Wins

Photo Essay: Some Kind of Waithood – Immaculata Abba

No Victim Status for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – By Jeremy Weate

I watched the first 3 episodes of Harry and Meghan. It seems to be pretty emotionally manipulative and subliminally vindictive against the rest of the family, especially, William, The Prince of Wales. They must surely be stripped of their titles after this. It is possible to hold two counterbalancing thoughts in the head at once:…

Riposte: On Achebe, Genocide, Biafra, Awolowo and Jeremy Weate’s misreading of history

In Reply to Jeremy Weate’s Achebe The Native Intellectual Riposte: On Achebe, Genocide, Biafra, Awolowo and African History: In Reply to Jeremy Weate’s “Achebe The Native Intellectual” Recently, we came across an article written by Jeremy Weate, co-founder of Cassava Republic Press, and former husband of the publisher and co-founder of Cassava Republic Press, Dr.…

On the rectitude and wrongness of Lady Hussey

Recently, Lady Susan Hussey, Godmother to The Prince of Wales in conversation with Ngozi Fulani in the end deemed to be racist – it seems that it was an intense version of that migrant goading question – where are you really from? While it is in fact a racist question, there is one level on which…

Deleting the Non-Voter – Walter Ude

We met on Grindr. His name is X. After a brief conversation, we moved to WhatsApp. We conversed for a bit there, firming up our acquaintanceship. When I mentioned that I was sorting through my late father’s things, trying to decide what to give away, he suggested donating them to an orphanage close to where…

The case of the possesed tattoo – Walter Ude

Well, this is a first. A hookup comes over to my place. I go to meet him at the junction, and as we walk back to my house, he glances at my arms and spies my tattoo. He points at it, saying, “Is that a tattoo?” “Yes,” I say with a nod. “Let me see.”…

In the kingdoms of letters, Nobel greatness is not the only greatness for Africans

Since 1901 when the first Nobel peace prize was awarded, the turn of literature in the world has quite rightly turned away from the over-valorisation of one part of the world to an acknowledgement that all literature is part of the world’s cultural music; however, there has been in recent years, a certain sense of…

AMOJA: HOW DID DELE MEIJI…?

AMOJA: How did Dele Meiji arise, live, and die? And what is reborn?– It stems from the unassuming enveloping of a Nigeria-protected child, born in London, coupled with an awareness of insulted grandeur; and a sudden realisation of the commonalities of Yoruba and Japanese cultures, not least in the intonations of familiar sounds like Funmi/Fumi,…