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For my loved ones in Republican states, call your representatives
Dear Republican loved one living in a “Red” State (from your non-Republican loved one living in a “Blue” state), Thank you for listening, two days ago, to me talk about my concerns about the Man in the...
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For my Conservative Christian relatives on why I am not voting for Trump (and...
An email I wrote to my Trump-supporting relatives 2 days before the election, in which I give a massive number of links to why I oppose Trump. I hope it is of use to other voters in my position....
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Nowhere to Run Wins Best Documentary Short at The African Film Festival...
Nowhere to run, shot, directed, and edited by my brother Dan McCain of Core Productions, Lagos, wins Best short documentary at The African Film Festival, Dallas, 3 July 2016. Plus this week's screening...
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Nowhere to Run to be screened as part of the convocation events at Kwara...
The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa (CiNNeMA) at Kwara State University, Malete, invites the university community and any interested guests to a special screening of the award-winning...
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‘Nowhere to Run’ wins Grand Jury Prize at the Green Me Film Festival, Lagos...
So delighted to report that the film Nowhere to Run: Nigeria’s Climate and Environmental Crisis has won the Grand Jury prize at the “Green Me” environmental film festival in Lagos this past weekend....
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A Win for Translation: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s novel Tram 83 wins Etisalat...
Fiston Mwanza Mujila's win of the Etisalat Prize for African Literature for his novel Tram 83, translated from the French by Roland Glasser, makes me muse over the journey towards valuing translation...
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Kannywood Awards 2016
The winners of the 2016 Kannywood Awards, with photos and commentary. Continue reading →
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My Interview with French Magazine Grazia about contemporary Hausa Novels ”...
In which I am interviewed by the French Magazine Grazia about Hausa literature. Continue reading →
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Translator’s Note: Glenna Gordon’s Striking photobook Diagram of the Heart...
Diagram of the Heart, the photobook by photojournalist Glenna Gordon that captures breathtaking images of women’s lives in northern Nigeria, has been getting a massive amount of global attention in the...
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Premiere of Nowhere to Run: Nigeria’s Climate and Environmental Crisis
At 6pm in Abuja at the Yar’Adua Centre today, 17 November, there will be a “green carpet” premiere of the documentary film Nowhere to Run: Nigeria’s Climate and Environmental crisis. Watch the trailer...
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Jos Theatre Comes to Abuja: Jos Repertory Theatre’s Queen Amina of Zazzau...
Notice about the Jos Repertory Theatre's performance of Queen Amina of Zazzau in Abuja and revisiting Africa Ukoh’s brilliant play 54 Silhouettes, a satire about Hollywood’s imagination of Africa. The...
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Translation Conference in Kano and Glenna Gordon’s exhibition of photographs...
Glenna Gordon's photography exhibition on Hausa women writers opens at the Open Society in New York this evening. I begin with a discussion of a translation conference in Kano I attended and then write...
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Lola Shoneyin polygamist satire in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Once I started the 245-page Secret Lives…, I couldn’t put it down. The novel is stunning—one of the best novels I’ve read this year. Continue reading →
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Remembering September 11 through a lens of fourteen years
Even all these years later, seeing the date September 11 still gives me a small jolt. Last night I was up past midnight trying to put up a course syllabus online. When I glanced at the date in the top...
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Wa Zai Auri Jahila? Balaraba Ramat Yakubu’s novel on Child Marriage
The novel was published in two parts. This is the second part, of 164 pages. In 2013, Abuja-based Cassava Republic Press asked me to choose a September 2013 “Book of the Month.” I wrote about Balaraba...
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Global Reach?
Several times I have proposed keeping up with the blog by posting photos from my vast archive and writing a quick memory of the context behind the photograph, and today I intend to start that–begin the...
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Missing Kannywood
During the celebration of Kannywood at 20, Kano, December 2010 (c) Sani Maikatanga There are many posts I have wanted to write, but I put them off because there is always something else I am supposed...
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On the eve of the election: Podcast with Ade Torrent on blogging from Nigeria
PDP poster shoved through bus windows, 25 March 2014. (c) Carmen McCain Two days ago, while returning in a university bus from the institution in one of the western states of Nigeria where I teach, we...
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Interview with Award-winning filmmaker Kenneth Gyang at the African Studies...
poster courtesy of Shadow and Act At the African Studies Association conference in Indianapolis last November (2014), Nollywood scholar Connor Ryan asked me if I’d like to collaborate with him on an...
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#Politicalironies : Campaigning in a time of Boko Haram
I’m not sure this photo needs any captioning. A screenshot I took featuring an article and a sidebar ad on 16 January 2015. A lot of juxtapositions these days. Here is a link to my blogpost with...
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