#YNaija2018Review: Children of Blood and Bone, My Transition Hours, Freshwater… See the 10 Most Notable Books of 2018

From chart-topping fantasies taking the world by storm to eyewitness accounts of a slice of Nigerian history, these are the 10 most notable books of the year. Arranged in ascending order. On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan won and lost Nigeria – Bolaji Abdullahi On a Platter of Gold is solid as a profile... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

Adebola Rayo, Akweke Emezi, Frankie Edozien, Oyinkan Braithwaite

November 21, 2016

0 Comment

The conversation about mental health that shook us up at Ake Festival

This year, the 4th Ake Arts and Book Festival, set out to address the issues that affect us beyond the skin. The art exhibitions by Ayobola Kekere-Ekun and Fati Abubakar; the selection of books on focus this year and importantly the conversations were all curated with a view to exploring as many issues that affect us... Read More

Adebola Rayo, AkeFest16, Beneath this Skin, Caine Prize, Dami Ajayi, Hissein Habre, Lidudum, Ngugi wa Thiong’o

November 11, 2016

0 Comment

Catch up with the 18th Lagos book and art festival (LABAF)

Today, Friday the 11th of November marks the second day of the annual four-day long culture festival, The Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF) – – “Africa’s biggest culture festival”. As always the festival has kicked off with some pre-festival activities which started on Monday, 7th November with a book trek in the garden of the British... Read More

18TH LABAF, Adebola Rayo, jihad, Lagos Book and Arts Festival, Stephanie Linus, Terror of Knowledge, Wole Soyinka, Yinka Olomojobi

April 2, 2014

0 Comment

Adebola Rayo: A case for quality education, the LASU example

by Adebola Rayo In Nigeria, we are constantly complaining about the paucity of infrastructure in our institutions, and calling on the government to ‘do something’. Yet, we are not willing to pay the kind of fees that would allow for funds to make a difference. In recent years, unemployability has become one of the leading... Read More

Adebola Rayo, case, lasu, opinion, quality education, tuition fees, ynaija

January 25, 2013

0 Comment

Adebola Rayo: On dealing with mental illness (30 Days, 30 Voices)

imagine that in a better society, I would have been diagnosed as a teenager. Nigeria needs to get to a point where mental illness is not a stigma; it starts with the individual For over a decade, I’d known something was not quite right with me mentally. I’d been living with the needless, sad... Read More

Adebola Rayo, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mental Illness, stigma, treatment

#YNaija2018Review: Children of Blood and Bone, My Transition Hours, Freshwater… See the 10 Most Notable Books of 2018

The conversation about mental health that shook us up at Ake Festival

Catch up with the 18th Lagos book and art festival (LABAF)

Adebola Rayo: A case for quality education, the LASU example

Adebola Rayo: Kakadu- A cocktail of art and history (Y! Pop-of-Culture)

Adebola Rayo: On dealing with mental illness (30 Days, 30 Voices)

Recent Posts

Categories

Recent Comments

YNaija

Tags