Pius Adesanmi's blog

These are definitely not the best of times for Gloria Steinem and the “gender trouble” radicals in her flock.  read more »

Very senior officials of the American, French, British, and German governments recently held fruitful discussions with their Nigerian counterparts in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the meeting was to amicably resolve disputes that have developed over exclusive rights to treat the minor ailments of Nigerian rulers and ‘top government functionaries'.  read more »

I met black America for the first time in 2005, after three years of living and teaching in America, and one year before I returned to Canada. The long journey to this eventful meeting started in my father's library in Isanlu, a small town in central Nigeria. I came of age in Nigeria as the locust decades of military despotism and civilian kleptocracy set in, destroying everything including what used to be known as the middle class.  read more »

Dear President Yar'Adua,

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Preparations for a seminar on African prison writing made me return to Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died during the Easter break. It was a second reading, coming some twenty-two years after the first. You do not approach the genre of African prison writing without an obligatory engagement of The Man Died, the text that cleared the path for later offerings by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Jack Mapanje, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Kunle Ajibade, Chris Anyawu, and even some later Robben Island narratives.  read more »