I used to think that I was blessed to grow up in a family where I could celebrate both Christian and Moslem holidays and considered myself fortunate to have been spared the burden of choosing between the two. However, I have been conflicted occasionally...

If God is truly merciful, and is the epitome of Love then God cannot after all these thousands of years blame me for Adam’s sin. I was not there. What fairness is there in being condemned for something I did not commit?

The winning of the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel, "Half of a Yellow Sun" (2006), is a matter for serious reflection. Now we will have to address the significance of Adichie in contemporary Nigerian literary praxis...

Poet and scholar Niyi Osundare breezed through Britain recently, making links with readers and writers, on his first visit to the country for several years.,,

The Patriot was born to a mother who had single-handedly deposed a king. He was the son of a father who was so sure of his own power that he one day took the whip to the slave driver. He was the last of three brothers, the oldest of whom could read through a book the size of five stacked bibles and recite from memory its contents without missing out a single word...

"At the town criers' conference, we the unread, un-reviewed sent strong words to the market place. We erected a stall of judgment for criers without towns, for dancers without gowns..."

"It?s been rather disappointing, many agree, what issues we still face in this new millennium, considering how much our imagination has been stimulated through those Space 1999 movies. By now or so, we thought, we will have domestic robots that talk, pills as fast food, outer space vacations, flying cars and much more..."