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IN Ibadan last Saturday, July 5, 2025 Nigeria-America based writer who teaches creative writing at the University of Florida in Gainesville, engaged a largely young audience….
WRITING is not an innocent act. This much Uwem Akpan told his audience at his Ibadan reading on Saturday, July 5, 2025 when he said ‘Biafra made a mistake to
And it hits differently. For those of my readers with my mobile phone number, this is no news. Because it was up on my status as soon as I received the copies that fateful day.
If you understand the writer and speaker reference above, then—like me—you’re old. LOL. Or, unlike me, you’re older. Hint: The Girl Is Mine by Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney.
News of the death of the acclaimed writer and cultural theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on May 28, 2025 broke to universal shock and much sorrowing. He was old enough, at age 87, but he was so beloved no one warmed to the idea of not having him around for as long as possible—forever, if we could get away with it.
“So, you’re the writer,” she says in a tone of casual wonder, but perhaps as an indication that the information she has had to go by may be dodgy. “When Robin mentioned the black resident, I thought of another person, although I haven’t spoken to that person, either.”
This novel does more than just re-imagine Ajayi’s life as a boy in Osogun and as an adult away from and back home, it also re-interprets Dandeson’s life. Dandeson was Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s son.