Culture & Literature
Articles and readings on African culture and literature.
Ghana’s politics has strong ties with performing arts.
Towards the end of the Kwame Nkrumah era in 1966, a number of highlife artists wrote songs critical of him...
Read moreDetailsNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o: ‘Monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture’
Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is well known for his promotion of the use of mother tongue languages, but he...
Read moreDetailsSeizing art: One African man’s protest against colonial ‘pillagers’
In June, Mwazulu Diyabanza stood in a Paris museum next to a 19th century funerary post from central Africa, and...
Read moreDetailsBackground on Yoruba Tonal System and its Acquisition
Mastering tones represents an integral aspect of Yoruba language acquisition as it constitutes the basis for an in-depth appreciation of...
Read moreDetailsLanguage contact: The Nigerian context and effects
Having described the status of the Nigerian quasi-official languages in my previous article entitled, “Profiling the Nigerian Indigenous Languages”, it...
Read moreDetailsProfiling the Nigerian Indigenous Languages
Nigeria, the most populous country in the African continent, is situated in the West African region. It comprises 180 million...
Read moreDetailsMass Failure in the WASSCE English among Nigerian Students: a way out
In its article entitled, ‘Mass failure in WASSCE’ published on March 12, 2019, Daily Trust reports a general failure of...
Read moreDetailsPreserving Yoruba language: the current status
Since the inauguration of the new Lagos Yoruba language policy officially proclaimed by the immediate former state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode,...
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