Tope-EniObanke Adegoke

Tares Oburumu is a Nigerian poet born in the creeks of Bayelsa and raised amid the socio-economic and cultural tensions of the Niger Delta region. His poetry is marked by formal and structural elegance; through it, he affirms his humanity and interrogates the illusions of post-independence Nigeria. His work has appeared in international journals that […]

The immaculate Brother Jero, the velvet-hearted Brother Jero, the one and only articulate hero of Christ’s crusade: I have seen many actors bring this suave prophet of Wole Soyinka in The Trials of Brother Jero to life on the stage, most notably Ropo Ewenla during his Ibadan PlayHouse run. So, from the moment I saw […]

Two trepidations knotted a cord in my heart when I arrived at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra that Easter Monday. One: this would be my first time travelling under a completely new identity, a new name. Two: this was my first time travelling without a proper passport. What I had with me was an ECOWAS […]