Category: Essays

Personal Essays

A Job is a Lullaby to the Ears

Post author By Afapinen
Post date May 19, 2026

A Dreamer's Landscape by Emmanuel Esomnofu

by Bright Aboagye

Essays

The Middleclass Problem of Nigerian Writing

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date March 19, 2026
1 Comment on The Middleclass Problem of Nigerian Writing

the author, Carl Terver

by Carl Terver

Essays

Finding Kadiatou

Dream Count

by Isaiah Adepoju

Tags chimamanda ngozie adichie, dream count, finding kadiatou, kadiatou, nigerian novel, nlng

Dance Shorts

Joachim Keke

Post author By Afapinen
Post date February 21, 2026

Joachim Keke

by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

Tags amapiano, house music genre, mystic house, nektunez, stunna on the track

Film Personal Essays

The Most Absurd Dreams

Post author By Afapinen
Post date February 20, 2026

Illustration by Orndir Fanen / in-frame: posterised images (Emma Corrin; Issa Rae) from Netlfix's "Hotel Reverie"

by Beloved John

Tags beloved john, black mirror, emma corrin, film writing, hotel reverie, issa rae

Music Reviews

The House Music of Stunna on Tha Track

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 13, 2025

Stunna on Tha Track in Pirate Studios, London

by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

Tags amapiano, house music genre, mystic house, nektunez, stunna on the track

Music

Anyafulugo and the Powerful Civilian

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 12, 2025

Anyafulugo

by Ebri Kowaki

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

Film

Dika Ofoma’s 15 Minutes with God’s Wife

Post author By Afapinen
Post date August 30, 2025

Movie Poster for God's Wife (A Dika Ofoma Film)

by Michael Aromolaran

Tags catholicism, dika ofoma, god's wife, Michael Aromolaran, Nollywood, old nollywood, southeast Nigeria, widowhood