Idowu Omoyele

Review: Biodun Olumuyiwa’s ‘In a Journey of Dreams’ is both timely and timeless

Friday Idowu Omoyele - 30 Jul 2020

Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection

Garuba finds his ‘port of death’

Article Idowu Omoyele - 19 Mar 2020

One of Nigeria’s greatest poets has died. ‘I sing for you brother, teacher, poet, prophet’

Transformation began 50 years ago

Article Idowu Omoyele - 2 Nov 2018

The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya

Things Fall Apart turns 60

Article Idowu Omoyele - 5 Oct 2018

The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales

‘For 30 years, I kept running’

Article Idowu Omoyele - 5 Jan 2018

Harry Garuba wrote his first collection of poems in 1982. It’s taken him 35 years to do a second

Vile stain of racism taints the US

Article Idowu Omoyele - 4 Jan 2018

It’s not surprising that the country has still not  rid itself of its violent and racial bigotry

Another Nigerian star emerges

Article Idowu Omoyele - 17 Nov 2017

Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel

Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 30 years later

Article Idowu Omoyele - 3 Oct 2017

With her intricate writing of physical suffering and supernatural torment, Toni Morrison vividly paints the pain of slavery

Post-colonial universities are trapped by their past

Article Idowu Omoyele - 31 Aug 2017

Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation

Cry, Nigeria, my beloved country

Article Idowu Omoyele - 28 Jul 2017

That a country so blessed with abundance can so cruelly betray its poor and vulnerable is nothing short of a tragedy

Arrested decolonisation, season 4

Article Idowu Omoyele - 14 Jul 2017

Transformation is the inclusion of African and other knowledge with Western thought

Primo Levi’s legacy 70 years on

Article Idowu Omoyele - 4 Jul 2017

'If This Is a Man' explores humanity’s inhumanity and the ability to endure unimaginable horrors.

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