Author: Carl Terver

Music

The Kinetic Poetry and Spirituality of Obongjayar

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date April 11, 2022

Obongjayar. Artist Photo via INSTAGRAM

by Carl Terver

Tags african music, afrobeat, Bob Marley, calabar-born, Carl Terver, fela, gONE gIRL, message in a hammer, Obongjayar, SARZ, Some nights i dream of doors, which way is forward

Music

The Joie De Vivre of Aṣa’s V Album

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date March 31, 2022

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen, Afro-soul, afrobeats, Asa, Carl Terver, nigerian music, V

Culture

Defending Naira Marley to Elitists

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date February 2, 2022

Image via Naira Marley Twitter/The singer in America during his Sep. 2021 "Marlian USA Tour"

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen essays, afrobeats, American pop culture, Carl Terver, cultural criticism, elitism, ethnocentricism, Eurocentricism, high art, inside life, lois tyson, nigerian music, soapy, sub-altern, susan sontag

Music

The Gospel of Ladipoe

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 25, 2021

IMAGE: Pete Martin (@iampetemartin)/Via INSTAGRAM

by Carl Terver

Tags Ladipoe, Ladipoe Providence, Providence Ep

Photography

The Lessons of Hue Editing

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date October 5, 2021

PHOTO: Luper Aluga

by Carl Terver

Tags art criticism, aura, Carl Terver, hue editing, kamal obat, luper aluga, mechanical reproduction, Photography, teju cole, walter benjamin

Reviews

Amatoritsero Ede’s Eulogy in Teardrops on the Weser

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date August 13, 2021

PHOTO: Author, Amatoritsero Ede

by Carl Terver

Tags Amatoritsero Ede, carl terver reviews, Griots Lounge, Nigerian poetry, teardrops on the Weser

Essays

Non-Romanticisation of Suicide in Nome Emeka Patrick’s Sylvia Plath Poem

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date July 29, 2021

PHOTO: Sylvia Plath / Original: Warren Kay/College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen, carl terver reviews, Nigerian poetry, nome emeka patrick, sylvia plath

Reviews

A Poet Gives an Answer: The Remarkable Poetry of Ahmed Maiwada’s We’re fish

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date July 27, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags ahmed maiwada, carl terver reviews, we're fish

Reviews

Odufa: Othuke Ominiabohs’s Novel of Love & Tragedy

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date July 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags odufa, ominiabohs review

Reviews

The Pan-African Teenager in Kayinsola Olorunnisola’s In My Country We’re All Crossdressers

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date July 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags afrobeat, colonialsim, fela, kayinsola review, Nigerian poetry, pan africanism