Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
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Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
By Chimurenga on 8 September 2020 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Nigeria’s Superstar Men Of God
Who needs the God of the bible with his promises of trials and tribulations, crosses and paths of repentance? Yemisi Aribisala listens to the sermons, counts the money, watches the high-flying life of Nigeria’s mega-preachers and wonders.
A Brief History of Fufu Pounding
The preparation of fufu is a far from the drudgery and waste of time bemoaned by the World Bank.
Calabar Winch
By Akin Adesokan I When the goddess of happy accidents stumbles on […]
African Cookbooks and Excess Luggage
By Yemisi Aribisala There is a sense of justice and spirit of resignation […]
How to Wear a Kitchen
Yemisi Aribisala ponders the small-minded commentary on the room best kept by […]
“Angazi, but I’m sure”: A Raw Académie Session
RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based centre for art, knowledge and society; […]
Nollywood Kiss
Is kissing a Nigerian habit or merely the preoccupation of neurotic French […]
The Second German Chronic is Here
The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]
“That Guy No Be Ordinary”
Yemisi Aribisala grapples with the real-time significance of the artist Victor Ehikhamenor, one of his most celebrated works, “The Flower of a Girl”, and the nonsensical brandishing of the banal in the context of Nigerian art as big business.
CHIMURENGA@20: SISTER OUTSIDER
By Chimurenga on 5 April 2016 in Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Yemisi Aribisala rails against the new fundamentalism cresting the wave of global feminism sweeping Nigeria. She challenges the gender imperialism implicit in its aspiration to uniform ideas of celebrity, power, erudition and beauty.
Birthing the American
Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.
Americanah and other definitions of supple citizenships
By Chronic on 8 October 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Chronic, Faith & Ideology, Media & Propaganda
Yemisi Aribisala reads the new novel by Nigeria’s ‘woman of letters’ and encounters […]
Fish Soup As Love Potions
Yemisi Aribisala lives in Calabar in Cross River State, where the scent […]