Commentary

The Gait Of An Iroko: A Sonnet For Achebe By...
Ogene, the gong pierces the hollow night in feverish echoes of the solemn...

Columnists

What Happens After (During) the State of Emergency? By Ogaga Ifowodo
Many who have quite rightly praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe — strongholds of Boko Haram...
The Achebe I Knew By Chido Onumah
“Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of contemporary Nigerian society”- Chinua Achebe, The Trouble with...
“If Another War Broke Out We‘re Not Likely To Do Anything Better,” Says Chinua Achebe
On January 25, 2008, I had what would be my first and last interview with Professor Chinua Achebe. At that point, he was no longer eager about granting interviews. But I approached him with a matter...
Which Gods Must Be Appeased? By Okey Ndibe
Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values. In Umuofia, Okonkwo may give vent to unruly deportment, but his community is also equipped with the coercive instrument for...
Where Did David Mark Get the Funds for His Private University? By Pius Adesanmi
(to the accompaniment of Fela’s “Just Like That”)
Hard View: State Of Emergency To Slate The Insurgency By Hannatu Musawa
So after much deliberation and rigmarole, after much dissent by leading sectors of Nigerians, after the massacres and nauseating murders of men, women and children, the government has finally...

Perceptor Blog

PERCEPTOR 38: Questions On Arik’s ‘Fly the Sweaty...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
PERCEPTOR 37: Arithmetic 101 a.k.a. Mathematics...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
PERCEPTOR 36: 5 Questions On The Roforofo In The...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
Perceptor’s Guide to Political Parties: How To...
These days Perceptor hardly has any questions at all.  It isn’t so much (ahem,) that Perceptor knows everything … (surely not, you cry!)
Perceptor: 4 Questions On The Questions That...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)

Articles

The Gait Of An Iroko: A Sonnet For Achebe By...
Ogene, the gong pierces the hollow night in feverish echoes of the solemn news! Ala, the earth wearily opens to swallow this huge feast of a people’s hymnal hunger. Chinualumogu! We still see...
Achebe: A Personal Testimony By C. Don Adinuba
Up to the moment he breathed his last on Thursday, March 21, 2013, Chinua Achebe, Africa’s most quoted raconteur, novelist , essayist and social critic, did not know he was the person who...
Sufuyan Ojeifo's Shroud Defence of David...
I read with pity, a poorly written piece by one Sufuyan Ojeifo on NewsDairyOnline (newsdiaryonline.com/marks-house-of-indolence-a-thesis-redolent-of-dishonesty-by-sufuyan-ojeifo/) and an edited...
On The State of Emergency Proclamation By Amene...
Let me begin this piece with a story.  Inno is a Nigerian in his early thirties, a graduate of Geography who has been searching from coast to coast for a job since he graduated in 2007. After...
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Is Not Dead! By Imoh...
I encountered Chinua Achebe as a teenager growing up in Benin City in the then Bendel State. It was a meeting that changed my perception of life. It was an immersion and learning experience into the...

Blog Entries

Nigerian Presidential Debate - GEJ Making Lame...
Nigeria is a bundle of contradictions - a fertile ground for eternal belief in democracy, where all hopes for democractic progress go to die. It has even been said in "respectable" quarters...
Soyinka's Poem On Racism
Happy Birthday Prof. Wole Soyinka: In celebration of your wit and literary mischief, I am hereby reproducing, what I personally regard as your best poem, "Telephone conversation".
Nigeria: Donald Duke. An Eureka moment? (S)...
Donald Duke - a former state governor in Nigeria used to intrigue me. Intrigue in the context that I know so little of him not having visited Cross Rivers, or in fact anywhere in the East beyond...
Felasophical Views On Femi Kuti – Broadway...
A basic Aikido philosophy states that the strength  is not in muscular force, but in flexibility, timing, control and modesty, its humanitarian purpose is to purify one’s aggressive...
In Nigeria It’s Networking Not Butt-Licking Duhh !
History demands that we record dates when life on the planet suffer grave setbacks, and I’m still struggling to recover the day the holy trinity of dignity, pride and honour fell off the...