“Who was Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Search for State Funding For?” — Olusegun Obasanjo
Chude: President Bola Tinubu said when he was Governor of Lagos state (he has said this many times) that you frustrated his attempt at revenue (generation) and tried to cripple the Lagos (economy). Baba: That’s absolute nonsense, No. I go by constitution. The
“I was highly underpaid and overworked in Florida.” — ARINZE IFEAKANDU
Whenever I feel anxious, I’d always remember the words of my mother; She’d say, “Will they chase you out of your father’s house?”. Before I came back to Nigeria, I was in Florida, and I was schooling there. I had to leave because
“Governors’ selfish interests drove the idea of third term; it’s a political game” —Olusegun Obasanjo
Chude: Third Term. Now the people who believed you when you said you didn’t seek third term and you said it that you’ve never had to fight for anything, that God gives you things. Now the people say okay, if you didn’t seek
“The End SARS movement rekindled a sense of love in me for Nigeria.”—Arinze Ifeakandu
Alobam is actually one of my favorite books. So, the basic description of the story is that there is this character who has lost his brother and is now in a relationship with the brother’s friend with whom they all grew up together.
Arinze Ifeakandu Reads His Favorite Chapter of “God’s Children are Little Broken Things.”
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“Buhari’s actions will always be on record, even if he tries to hide them.”— Olusegun Obasanjo
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“When desires are not controlled it leads to a lack of emotional safety.” —ARINZE IFEAKANDU
At least with those two characters for example the story began with his desires you know which is like what what does this man want. I knew I always wanted to write a story about this character who has a little child and
“Your readers are not idiots.” —ARINZE IFEAKANDU
The writer I admired once said in a workshop, “Don’t think your readers are idiots.” I think that is the biggest mistake you’re going to make. This means that the people who are reading your books are intelligent people. So, once you come
“While coming out of shame and guilt, I had a lot of rage burning in me.” —Arinze Ifeakandu
After I finished this book I was like I need to start therapy. I remember telling my writer friends that writing actually does help a lot in terms of dealing with things but therapy is better. I remember writing like Mother’s Love and
“I was shocked to see other queer Nigerian men enjoy freedom outside the country.” —Arinze Ifeakandu
I’ve been thinking we actually live in a don’t ask don’t tell kind of reality and around the time I was writing a lot of these stories I had a different reality at least a different social economic reality. For me, my main
