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Articles by Molara Wood

8 Jan 2017
It’s a new year but book-wise, I am still in November, a month now firmly established as peak literary season in Nigeria. In November, writers and book lovers, already a restless and flighty pack...
28 Sep 2016
“Twenty-one million people call this city home,” says a female voiced intro as ’93 Days’ opens, signposting the devastation that could have been wreaked by Ebola Virus Disease ...
18 Sep 2016
The immigrant’s journey is familiar terrain for Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo, as shown in the Introduction to ‘This American Life Sef’, a collection of five essays and two short stories.
21 Aug 2016
On July 29, 2016, 50 years to the day the former military Governor of Western Nigeria, Lt. Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, was killed in Nigeria’s second coup, the Yoruba Think-Tank held a major event in his honour at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan...
24 Jul 2016
“This experience for me is pretty surreal. We are sitting in the midst of real forest and we’re having intellectual discourse and we’re seeing a lot of drama… I will talk about it for many years to come.”
6 Jul 2016
A school friend named Bolanle was the person that first introduced me to Prince. It was 1984. I never registered his existence until then. We read Right On! magazine for information ...
22 Jun 2016
It feels a bit surreal to be writing about the death of Prince Rogers Nelson just days after an even bigger curtain has fallen. On the night when I went to sleep with the news that Muhammad Ali ...
22 May 2016
The Netherlands Embassy in Lagos opened its doors to members of the Nigerian arts community recently for a celebration of one of their own, an artist under siege, in an event designed to send a message, that he is not alone.
11 May 2016
It is some ten years since I last wrote a dedicated column on the arts. My previous one, for The Guardian on Sunday, ended in 2006, after a three-year run.
1 May 2016
The first ever Nigerian Drums Festival, which held over four days in the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta, from 19th to 22nd April, 2016, has been the country’s most significant cultural event of this year so far. Organised by the Ogun State Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the festival was staged in the open-air setting of…