Category: Essays

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

Essays Music

Ripple Effect

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

by Carl Terver

Tags best nigerian rap song, dark poet, dark poet ripple effect, endsars, nigerian constitution, police brutality

Dispatches

Dispatch: December 2024, and A Great Year Ahead

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 31, 2024

by Carl Terver

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

Debates

The Debates of Fourth Generation Nigerian Poetry

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 31, 2024

by Editor

Tags ancci, bestman michael osamudiamen, Carl Terver, ernest ogunyemi, fourth generation nigerian poetry, micheal chiedoziem chukwudera, oko owi ocho

Personal Essays

Wanted Dread Or Alive

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 31, 2024

In image: Emmanuel Esomnofu / Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Emmanuel Esomnofu

Tags ajegunle, Bob Marley, december dispatch, emmanuel esomnofu afapinen, natty dread, peter tosh, reggae music, wanted dread or alive emmanuel esomnofu

Personal Essays

A December in Aso Pada

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 29, 2024

Image: Window by author

by Carl Terver

Tags a christmas in aso pada, Carl Terver, december, farad, personal essay, richard ali

Music

Olamide’s Art of Longevity In Ikigai Vol. 1

Post author By Afapinen
Post date November 18, 2024

OLAMIDE / via artist's Instagram

by Ayodeji Ajibola

Tags afapinenmusic reviews, afrobeats, amapiano, asake, fireboy, ikigai vol 1, nigerian music, olamide