Sixty-Two Piercing Annotations to Nigeria’s Restless Story
By Friday Inalegwu Ejilogo In the long arc of a poet’s life, each collection becomes not merely a new book but a fresh annotation to the unfolding manuscript of existence. Footnotes For A Native Land, appearing recently in 2026, marks Emman Usman Shehu’s fifth major poetry collection—a milestone that invites us to pause and trace […]
Natasha Akpoti and the Fight for a Just Democracy
By Emman Usman Shehu In the bustling chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly, where the pulse of the nation’s democracy is supposed to be on display, a single figure has come to embody a far larger struggle. Natasha H. Akpoti, a lawyer, activist, and senator, recently returned to her seat after a controversial suspension, her presence […]