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…10 min read·Jul 14, 2023----
James YekuThe Multiple Significations of #EndSARSThe Multiple Significations of #EndSARS5 min read·Oct 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…6 min read·Oct 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…6 min read·Sep 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…5 min read·Mar 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…6 min read·Feb 17, 2020----
James YekuDesert journeysAbout noon they arrived to its scorching welcome, A Sahara of arid wind unfurling before them.1 min read·Oct 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…6 min read·Aug 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…4 min read·Jul 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…6 min read·Jun 25, 2019----