A Three Point Shot from Andromeda
When not teaching white boy’s how to shuffle, acting Tuff, or fixing the jukebox at Slumberland, Paul Beatty shoots a mean jump shot. Quick, quick, the clock’s ticking. rain rusted orange ring of saturn in urban orbit over an outdoor gym nighttime jumpers pull up to the hoop dance on the rim bolted against […]
A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos
Akin Adesokan tropes on the detective genre after he stumbles on an unidentified corpse in Oko-Oba. Who does the body belong to? And more importantly who is going to take responsibility for it in a society where bureaucracy and apathy have usurped common human decency? I had some housekeeping assignments around Oko-Oba, near the Abattoir […]
George Osodi
George Osodi is a photographer from “the oil-rich Niger Delta region”. His images documenting the region first brought international attention, as shown in the short film below. A contrasting side to life in his homeland is shown in his body of work – Nigerian Monarchs, this series will be exhibited later in the month in Lagos and […]
Lagos: A Pilgrimage in Notations
Having lived away from Nigeria for most of his adult life – first in London then Los Angeles – poet, novelist, storyteller, Chris Abani returned to his homeland and responded with words. It begins like this. In London, in a Turkish restaurant, peering into the thick sludge in the bottom of my coffee cup, nine […]
Che
First published in 1968 in Buenos Aires, the biography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara by Alberto and Enrique Breccia and Héctor Oesterheld sold over 60,000 copies in its first week. But the 1973 military onslaught made it a dangerous book to own – most copies were hidden, and subsequently burned. Oesterheld (script) was tortured and murdered – along with his 3 daughters; […]