Where are a few hundreds of Shanghai’s 23.5 million at this beautiful, very pedestrian-friendly junction to enjoy what is apparently a beautiful day? Where is the traffic gridlock? Now, THAT would have to be a miniature car inside an enclosure atop the tallest building in this enclave of expensive condos/apartments? I love the twin mid-rise […]
Archive | Arts & Culture RSS feed for this archive
Shanghai Pictures re-done; earlier ones did not post complete images – Tola Adenle
The Sahara Reporters/Soyinka interview: comments worth sharing
May 22, 2013
Olusegun Ricard Babalola Submitted on 2013/05/22 at 3:44 pm Perhaps, if I may say so, sirs, a specific point is overlooked. And the veil over this is the sensationalism of ethnic rivalry between the followers of both WS and Achebe. Granted that we do not suffer from this disgusting disease, we may without […]
Remembering Pini Jason who “wrote anything he liked”, and it always attracted wide readership – Harpostrophe Works
May 20, 2013
http://issuu.com/harpostropheworks/docs/pinisophy. Monday, May 20, 2013, Noon [GMT]
“Hagiographers, foreign ‘African experts’ … have confined Chinua’s achievement space into a bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labeled ‘Nobel’” – Soyinka
May 18, 2013
SaharaReporters Interview Exclusive: Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller, But No Father Of African Literature, Says Soyinka Sahara Reporters, New York, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known […]
17th Century Slavery-era cabin headed to The Smithsonian – AP
May 16, 2013
[U.S. State of] South Carolina slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display – By BRUCE SMITH | Associated Press Associated Press/Bruce Smith – In this Monday, May 13, 2013 photo, workers remove roofing from a slave cabin on Edisto Island, S.C. EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century […]
Should citizens on whose behalf governments at state and “federal” levels issue bonds not have says? – Tola Adenle
May 15, 2013
The Nigerian government has just completed another bond issue – call a spade what the majority of Nigerians know as a spade - a loan - of Euro1 billion to be handled by City and Duetsche Banks: As I’ve cried hoarse since 2002, more especially since Economy Director Okonjo Iweala started the mad borrowing spree despite her […]
Female loan defaulter beaten up before 3-day lock-up by Micro Finance Bank – The Vanguard
May 9, 2013
I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Bank detain female customer 3 days for default in payment of loan – The Vanguard Crime Alert Wednesday, May 8, 2013 *The Micro Finance Bank (Insert Mrs Rose Abbey) advertisement By Onozure Dania A Petty trader, Mrs. Rose Abbey got what she didn’t bargain for when she was allegedly detained in a Micro Finance Bank […]
Two with roots that stretch to Nigeria & Ghana on 2013 British “Granta Best Young Novelists’ List”
April 17, 2013
To those readers who might have read this since it was posted Monday, the title back then missed an important word and had to be taken down just now. TOLA. While Nigerians are still reveling in the literary success of Chimamanda Adichie, here comes news of two young ladies with deep roots in the country. […]
The lie of [Nigeria's] tertiary education - Tola Adenle
April 15, 2013
Reblogged from emotanafricana.com: idea whose time should come back? TOLA, December 9, 2011.] ======================== It is very apparent that students are not learning much in our universities and polytechnics these days. You will notice I did not say, “teachers are not teaching.” Having been a teacher and one who actually love the profession, I […]
May 22, 2013
2 Comments