America

The Magnolia Mound Museum + Historical Site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a strange place. When I visited this museum, I saw that it looked awfully like a plantation, and this made me ask important questions about why the word “plantation” was missing from the name of the “museum.” After all, the Whitney Plantation, just […]

While any legitimate criticisms of a decrepit system cannot be equated with an outright dismissal of it, there is something to be said to the Nigerian abroad whose narratives about colleagues at home are couched mainly in typecasting rhetoric. Neither a gesture at academic populism nor a hint of empty nationalism, this, here, is my […]