Niyi Osundare

Omoyele Sowore: Nigeria’s Wrong Prisoner

- A Note to President Buhari By Niyi Osundare The 2015 general elections had just…

Not My Business

By Niyi Osundare They picked Akanni up one morning Beat him soft like clay And…

Bard of the River Nun: Remembering Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (1929 – 2019)

  . . . .my river’s calling too ……………………..…… And each dying year brings near…

Still in Defence of Lasting Values

By Niyi Osundare Let us begin by deliberating on the choice and import of the…

Conversation with Niyi Osundare

- by Femi Olugbile The event was billed as the last installment of the programme…

Niyi Osundare at Literary Crossroads in Lagos Sings of Change

Temitope Adeiye The last edition of Literary Crossroads for the year held at the Goethe…

Another Season Of Hate And Severance: World War 111, Here We Come!

By Niyi Osundare The journey from hate to holocaust Is perilously short…. (from ‘Ode to…

FAREWELL TO THE SCHOLAR WITHOUT BORDERS (for Abiola Irele, 1936 – 2017)

By Niyi Osundare When Serendipity conspires with Fate, the result is almost invariably a combination…

Niyi Osundare at three score and 10

By Sunny Awhefeada “Farmer born peasant bred,” Isaac Oluwaniyi Osundare clocked three score and ten…

Forest of a thousand wonders (For Moyo Ogundipe 1948 – 2017)

By Niyi Osundare On the first day of March this year, the art world lost…