Evening
I remember, no have forgotten, the evenings when night fell at 3pm. A lonely child on the streets of America squinting at his watch and wondering where all the daylight went. Then there were days of...
View ArticleHuman Landscapes: Ibadan
Just people, friends, colleagues, mentors, places, signs, smiles and wrinkles. “Ibadan, running splash of rust and gold flung and scattered among seven hills, like broken china in the sun” J.P. Clark.
View ArticleOn Ibadan’s Literary Personality
Ibadan has a special quality which makes it conducive to intellectual and artistic production. It is a big city like Lagos but, unlike Lagos which is chaos running on crack, it is sufficiently...
View ArticleAn Evening With Icarus
EMERGING AESTHETICS IN NIGERIAN LITERATURE – A CELEBRATION OF ROTIMI BABATUNDE WINNER OF THE CAINE LITERATURE PRIZE 2012. Dear All, This is to draw you into the circle of friends who are planning an...
View Article“Emerging Aesthetics in Nigerian Literature”
As a symposium participant in an event at the Draper’s Hall, University of Ibadan, at the weekend to celebrate the work of Rotimi Babatunde, winner of the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing, I made a...
View ArticleFrom the Icarus Event (Photos)
Ibadan, November 3, 2012, at the event to honour the winner of the 2012 Caine Prize. Photos from the event.
View ArticleIbadan Memories
In advance of a live twitter interview with the folks at @thinkoyo on my memories and opinion of Ibadan at 8pm (Lagos Time) this evening, let me list a few things I remember from growing up: A serene...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: ARTMOSPHERE MARCH 15, 2014
ARTMOSPHERE is the leading monthly platform for the revival of a vibrant reading culture and the promotion of creative expressions in literature, music and the arts amongst Nigeria’s teeming youth...
View ArticleAt Agodi Gardens, Ibadan
There’s a reason, I assume, why the midwest United States appeals more to me – of all the regions in the country – than places like the coast, for instance. True, New York City and California are dream...
View ArticleIbadan: Of Towers, Hills, and Neglect
There are many stories in every step up Òkè Àarẹ in Ibadan, each as diverse as the other, but each visibly telling of the city’s ancient but colourful past. One of the notable things the city is...
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