Featured Notes Wole Olaoye

How To Organise, Not Afghanise

CONTEMPORARY AFRICA COMPRISES countries cobbled together by colonialists for their own interest. In the case of Nigeria, British colonialism was, as playwright Ola Rotimi would put it, in the service of their ‘female king’. The two hitherto distinct halves of Nigeria (Northern and Southern Protectorates) have managed to stay together as one country for one Read More…

Featured Notes Wole Olaoye

Lindsay Barrett at 80

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO be affected by contact with Lindsay Barrett, the poet, journalist, essayist, photographer, playwright, broadcaster and novelist. This rolling stone has gathered moss aplenty,  having packed so much into his four score years with indelible footprints in Europe, the United States and Africa. I first met Barrett in the glorious 70s when Read More…