ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS ON AFRICA: NON-FICTION
Memoir: "A King's Progress," nth position, August 2007.
link to text
"O Ti Lo Wa Ju (You Have Gone Past All): The Caine Prize for African
Writing," The Georgia Review,
Summer 2007. link to publication
Interview: “Nigerian Futures: Interview with Wole Soyinka,”
opendemocracy , 8/25/06. link
to text
Interview: Chris Abani. “Direct Quotes,” Poets & Writers
(online), 6/1/06. link to
text
“The state of Nigerian democracy,” opendemocracy,
1/13/06. link
to text
“Nigeria's Political Prospects (2 parts),” Friends of
Nigeria Newsletter, Spring & Fall 2005. link
to text
“Oil: Nigeria’s Slippery Politics,” Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, Jan-Feb 2005. link
to text
Review: A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope for Africa, by
Howard W. French,
American
Book Review, 2005.* link
to publication
(*ABR has received the ALA Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group award
for excellence in book reviewing.)
“(Re)Introducing Elechi Amadi,” (2 parts) and (review) “Where
Gods and Mortals Meet”
(Urhobo art show at Museum for African Art), Friends of Nigeria Newsletter,
2004. link to
text
Review: GraceLand, by Chris Abani, American Book Review, 2004.
link
to publication
"The 'Obnoxious' Threat to Nigeria and Its Oil," Wall Street
Journal, 4/15/03. link
to publication
Review: Norman Rush's Mortals, Worldview, Summer 2003. link
to publication
Review: "Material Differences," Museum for African Art, Friends
of Nigeria Newsletter, 2003. link
to text
"Democracy at the Crossroads: The Nigerian Elections of 2002-03 (4
parts),"
Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2002-03. link
to text
"The Acceptable Face of Capitalism: John Holt & Co," African
Link, 2002
(reprinted in Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, 2007). link
to text
"An Interview with Norman Rush,” Friends of Nigeria Newsletter,
2002. link to
text
"Talking (Again) with Norman Rush," Returned Peace Corps
Writers and Readers (online), 2002. link
to text
"Lumumba," by Raoul Peck, Friends of Nigeria Newsletter,
2001. link to
text
Reviews & interviews from Friends of Nigeria Newsletter,
1997-2000:* link
to text
--“NYC Offers African Art Feast” (review).
-- "Champion of Democracy: An Interview with Chief Anthony Enahoro"
(reprinted in African Link).
--"The Human Face of Torture: A Review of the Fourth New York African
Film Festival at Lincoln Center.”
--“Fifth New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.”
--"Baule: African Art/Western Eyes.”
--"Two New Shows," and "A Book Party for Another Africa:
three events at the Museum for African Art.”
--“Highlights from an RPCV Writers and Readers interview with Jonathan
Kwitny.
(*In 2001, Friends of Nigeria Newsletter was
voted "Best country-of-origin newsletter for both
content and design" by the National Peace Corps Association.)
OTHER NON-FICTION.
Scholarly:
"A Transformational-Generative Analysis of a Famous Line from Milton,”
Leadings, the Friends Seminary Bicentennial Journal, 1986.
Introduction:
William Thackeray's Vanity Fair (Bantam Books, 1997; reissued
2006).