‘Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to bliss.’ – Lord Baden Powell I was born in Nyeri County, Kenya, on William Shakespeare’s birthday. I didn’t know I shared a birthday with the…

It is the kind of evening where the air is unmoving and frozen by heat. The absence of your creaking fan reminds you that there has been no power for…

ALEXANDER OPICHO The YouTube video clips showing how the white-American policemen shot Jacob Blake, a black man, are very troubling. They conjure all sorts of feelings of distaste; it is…

NNADUBE JONATHAN EJIOGU Zindzi’s poems titled “I Saw as a Child” and “I Have Tried Hard,” construct clearly the situation of apartheid in the textual society which, of course, assumes…

GANIU MUMIN The literature of Nigeria can be linked to the historical events that form the corpus of experience that Africa and its people encountered. Africa has witnessed many events…

CHIDIEBUBE ONYE OKOHIA “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” I stepped into the wilderness when I arrived Loyola compound along Old Ife Road, Agodi,…

ALEXANDER OPICHO George Floyd, a black man of fourty-six years, and a father of two children in Minneapolis, attempted to con a tobacco and wine store owner by trying to…