see what the headline captured rather than physical assault and rape.

As an unestablished writer in 2025, you want to be cool & mysterious like Achebe & Teju Cole & Adichie by not cheapening your presence with Twitter use. But you also know that a strong social media presence helps to land book deals. Two words: this sucks.

Not every line in fiction need have a groundbreaking insight. It can also be pleasurable to read commonplace insights in uncommon language. For example, we all know men and women’s past are judged differently, but how musically does Edith Wharton convey it:

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Big big things ni mo like: Big L Big Pun Biggie …. That White boy, Eminem, is number 1 though.

Thank you Ancci and the editors at The Republic for this. More than 10 years post-publication, my heart is full.

“No one laughs like Fabulous.” Because I couldn’t dare write about her in past tense. When you lose the person closest to you, the word “was” takes on a new, savage meaning.  – Ifenimi akpatamag.top/2025/03/29/a-r…

Have you read Chinua Achebe’s “Mami Wota” short story before? Source: TRUST (1971)

Every asexual person I know has said something to the effect of "When I learned asexuality was a thing, I realized I wasn't broken and I wasn't alone, and it was AMAZING." Imagine hating that. Imagine being that miserable and mean. Imagine.

Companies that ask for salary expectations, rather than just pay applicants the budget for a role, don’t understand that when employees discover they’re underpaid—and they will after a few months of joining the company—they start to feel resentful of the company.

With WARFARE now in cinemas, I wrote about a minor character in CIVIL WAR who has stayed in my mind for a surprisingly long amount of time for In Review Online inreviewonline.com/2025/04/10/wha…

Happy Palm Sunday, the day providing the setting for one of Nigerian literature’s iconic openers: “Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion… We had just returned from church. Mama placed the fresh palm fronds… on the dining table…”

Taiwo O Egunjobi motigbetional speaker IKEADE Although I think you mistake the part of "anthropological value." I think Michael is speaking mote from the aspect of the art of criticism as a medium of edification in understanding film, and in criticism being a creative form in itself. A creative form of judgement.

motigbetional speaker 🕊️ opeyemisilas Taiwo O Egunjobi IKEADE It's better to leave the films alone, IMO. No need to build a reputation as a serial complainer. Thus, if you must comment on the films, start finding ways to not only complain because it does no one any good, and is quite insulting to your intelligence.