Essays & Criticism
Published in Foreign Policy, Popula, The World of Interiors, Brittle Paper, the British Library Blog, and elsewhere — on Yorùbá, technology, Nigerian politics, African literature, and the world.
Worth starting with
A day spent with Africa's first Nobel Laureate on his Ibadan campus — the essay that eventually grew into the film Ebrohimie Road.
On how Black Orpheus — the journal Ulli Beier launched in Ibadan in 1957 — shaped the course of modern African literature.
When the Academy disqualified Genevieve Nnaji's film for being in Nigerian English, it raised a question worth asking: is Nigerian English a foreign language?
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