Category: Essays

Music

The Joie De Vivre of Aṣa’s V Album

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Mar 31, 2022

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

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Culture

Defending Naira Marley to Elitists

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Feb 2, 2022

Image via Naira Marley Twitter/The singer in America during his Sep. 2021 "Marlian USA Tour"

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen essays, afrobeats, American pop culture, Carl Terver, cultural criticism, elitism, ethnocentricism, Eurocentricism, high art, inside life, lois tyson, nigerian music, soapy, sub-altern, susan sontag

Essays

A Critic Fails in His Critical Bidding: Nzube Nlebedim’s takedown of Chibundu Onuzo’s The Spider King’s Daughter

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Feb 2, 2022

Photo: Orndir Fanen

by Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè

Tags afapinen essays, Chibundu Onuzo, Nigerian criticism, Nzube Nlebedim, The Spider King's Daughter, Tope Adegoke

The Gospel of Ladipoe

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Dec 25, 2021

IMAGE: Pete Martin (@iampetemartin)/Via INSTAGRAM

by Carl Terver

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Essays

A Scholar’s Odyssey: Ezekiel Fajenyo’s Critical Study of Dzukogi’s Writings

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 24, 2021

PHOTO: BM Dzukogi (Source: Facebook)

by Paul Liam

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Shorts

A Portrait of a Man Finding Himself

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 3, 2021

PHOTO: by the author

by EMMANUEL ESOMNOFU

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Essays

Non-Romanticisation of Suicide in Nome Emeka Patrick’s Sylvia Plath Poem

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 29, 2021

PHOTO: Sylvia Plath / Original: Warren Kay/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen, carl terver reviews, Nigerian poetry, nome emeka patrick, sylvia plath