My landlord and his wife would bring food over daily. They furnished the apartment for me. It was some three weeks before I was able to go back to work, and then I was only able to work 4 or 5 hrs a day. My website had been shut down, well my merchant shut it down , during...
British born Nigerian actor David Oyelowo broke the color barrier at the Royal Shakespeare Company with his bravura performance in a production of "Henry VI" before going on to achieve big screen success in a variety of genres. Pre-fame, Oyelowo was seen regularly in British households as a...
but remember that only a few scenes with those drunken, vulgar sailors are set here in town.The Landlord, the editor turned director’s first film, plays in a similar sandbox to John G. Avildson’sJoeand MilošForman’sTaking Off, which all take a jaundiced look at privileged white yout...
Please take things easy oo as fuel is now almost N700 per litre and put your total trust in God (not man).The Rate at which People Just ‘dey’ die all of a Sudden is becoming alarming.Most Nigerians know that we are in a Period of Frustrations,Depressions, Confusion, Terror, Stress...
Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fictionAnti-trafficking campaigners often single out Nigerian women as the worst case of what they call sex trafficking. I first wrote... Grid girls and the Presidents Club: Women and sexist jobsIn 1995, my friend’s 17-year-old daughter Ermin...
Twenty years after bursting from the grungy street markets of Lagos, the $500 million Nigerian movie business churns out more than a thousand titles a year on average, and trails only Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of revenues. The films are hastily shot and then burned onto video CDs, a...
A BOLT FROM THE BLUE - Camilla Parker fends off a combo "Lottery/FBI/The Nigerian Government owes you money" scam A PLEADING OF ORPHANS - Mal Reynolds versus five Lads, with recorded phone calls! OH MY GOD THEY KILLED KENNY! - a two-month bait from Alotta Fosters, wealthy koala rancher...
Even when Achebe decided that he would become a writer to tell the story of colonized Nigerians in the middle of the 20th century, getting his stories published was incredibly difficult. There was no African publishing house and, in fact, not even a typing service. He had to entrust the ...
The Selah Lamp 1.0 is by Nigerian industrial designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello, who was inspired by a local factory that produces metal casings for electrical-power generators. It’s made from a bent piece of sheet metal and can double as a stool or a bookshelf, which Cooper says is “genius...
Currency devaluation: A purposeful lowering of the value of a country’s currency relative to another currency within afixed exchange rate system. When Axe met with Everett Wright with the intention of poaching him from Richards Capital, Wright mentioned that the Nigerian government was going todeva...