James YekuOf Ugliness and Beauty in BerlinUgliness and beauty, they are everywhere around us, inherent in the fabric that binds us all to the human condition. If you looked hard…Jul 14, 2023Jul 14, 2023
James YekuThe Multiple Significations of #EndSARSThe Multiple Significations of #EndSARSOct 27, 2020Oct 27, 2020
James YekuThe Police is Not Your Friend: #EndSARS and the Forceful Exertions of Friendships in NigeriaWhile the recent viral #EndSARS in Nigeria may have been successful, the issues it raises impel us to rethink the famous motto of the…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
James YekuThe Social Media Influencer and The Freezing of Pentecostal Power in NigeriaNigerian Pentecostalism is currently witnessing the surveilling and disciplinary gaze of the netizen. This has not always been the case in…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020
James YekuCovid-19 and the Closing of the Nigerian MindThe Federal government appears to see that being complacent in the wake of a pandemic can potentially bring tragic consequences. By…Mar 21, 2020Mar 21, 2020
James YekuPerforming Owambe: Lagos as SimulacrumIn Mike Ezuruonye’s Lagos Real Fake Life, we encounter postcolonial urban Lagos as simulacrum, presenting an oxymoronic pastiche of the…Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
James YekuDesert journeysAbout noon they arrived to its scorching welcome, A Sahara of arid wind unfurling before them.Oct 18, 2019Oct 18, 2019
James YekuA Box Full of Darkness: The Language of Trauma in Jumoke Verissimo’s A Small SilenceThrough her narrative of trauma, Nigerian poet offers a debut novel that offers readers a paradox: how darkness can both heal and enslave…Aug 2, 2019Aug 2, 2019
James YekuRevisiting Pius Adesanmi’s The Wayfarer and Other PoemsAlthough his The Wayfarer and Other Poems appears to have aged very quickly, Pius Adesanmi’s poetry collection remains an important…Jul 1, 2019Jul 1, 2019
James YekuA Republic of Extraverted Pentecostals: A Response to Ebenezer ObadareEbenezer Obadare’s Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria masterfully captures the troubling…Jun 25, 2019Jun 25, 2019