Author: Carl Terver

Essays

The Middleclass Problem of Nigerian Writing

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date March 19, 2026
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Reviews

Some Meals Are More Meal Than Others

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 3, 2025

Cover: A Meal Is A Meal; author, Nnamdi Anyadu

by Carl Terver

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Essays

Echolalia

Carl Terver (Image courtesy: author)

by Carl Terver

Tags echolalia, echolalia poetry, imagery, shlovsky, soul poetry

Dispatches

Coming In From the Cold II: the Tech of Text

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date November 9, 2025

Carl Terver in selfie

by Carl Terver

Tags canon, chimezie chika, coming in from the cold, cyprian ekwensi, ernest ogunyemi, great novelist, griot-esque style, literay and aesthetic taste, Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera, oris aigbokhaevbolo, politics of great writing, prose style, sule-e-egya, tech of text, the tech of text

Essays Music

Ripple Effect

Illustration by Orndir Fanen / From L-R: Falz; Dark Poet; M.I

by Carl Terver

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Photography

Four Photographs

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date May 27, 2025

hidden artists 2024 © Carl Terver

by Carl Terver

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Dispatches

Coming In From the Cold: I

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 31, 2024

In frame: Carl Terver / Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Personal Essays

A December in Aso Pada

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 29, 2024

Image: Window by author

by Carl Terver

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Reviews

Edify Yakusak displays brilliance in “On A Day Like This”

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 9, 2024

On A Day Like This [cover; Masobe Books] / Edify Yakusak

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen reviews, edify yakusak, nigeria genre novel, on a day like this edify yakusak, on a day like this review

Photography

An Affordance

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date November 8, 2024

In frame: "Third Mainland" by Ugochukwu Emebiriodo

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen photography, Carl Terver photography, Emebiriodo, filter editing, iPhones, Sartre, Sontag, Sunkisses, teju cole, the lessons of Hue Editing, third manland