Pa IkhideMy essay: Art in the age of anxieties (First Published, April 2020)What is the role of the artist in the age of the Corona virus? What does the artist see, feel, hear, taste in the new sea of anxieties? Who…Jun 13, 2021Jun 13, 2021
Pa IkhideTwo Doors Down: Buhari’s Hell and The Crimes of Nigerian IntellectualsThe 1985 murder of 26-year old Bernard Ogedengbe by Buhari haunts me. It’s as if I let him down by failing to convince Nigerians that…Jun 13, 2021Jun 13, 2021
Pa IkhideOn ASUU, the Federal Government, Nigeria and NaijanetOh Beautiful People,Dec 19, 2020Dec 19, 2020
Pa IkhideWriters as Goebbels: Nigerian literature as a tool of oppressionI am angry. Nigeria is eating her young. Again. This is not the first time. Nigeria has been feasting on the blood of the poor for decades…Oct 21, 2020Oct 21, 2020
Pa Ikhide#EndSARS: On that open letter from African writersAfrican writers have written an open letter to the world, I guess, on #Endsars which could be reduced to a short tweet: “Because the dead…Oct 17, 2020Oct 17, 2020
Pa IkhideOn The Cadwaladr Quests: Tangled Times by S. L. AgerThe advent of social media and digital content on the Internet has had the perhaps unintended consequence of providing intense competition…Mar 7, 2020Mar 7, 2020
Pa IkhideAn ordeal: Getting a new bank account at GTBIn December 2019, based on a survey of banks folks preferred to use online, my wife and I settled on Guaranteed Trust Bank (@gtbank). They…Feb 20, 20201Feb 20, 20201
Pa IkhideTweets at dawn… Who wants my brief bag?America. Most mornings, I grab my brief bag and go to work. It’s always the same routine. Roll out of bed, take a shower, dress up, grab…Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020