Bush descubre ?frica. (La semana: en el mundo).
TRES AÑOS después de situar África como última prioridad en su política exterior, George Bush inicia su primera gira por este continente, sin incluir los países más conflictivos. En su agenda aparecen Senegal; Sudáfrica, principal socio comercial africano; Botswana; Uganda, y Nigeria, décimo productor mundial de petróleo, Bush, que...

Ekwe gets reward, goes home after 2 years.
Byline: WAYLON GALVEZ AFTER ALMOST two years, Sam Ekwe finally made his return to his homeland Nigeria. The burly 6-foot-8 native of Lagos went back home for the first time since coming over to the country August 2005 to play basketball for the San Beda...

Can Ekwe lift San Beda?
Byline: KRISTEL SATUMBAGA WITH HIS towering figure, Nigerian Samuel Ekwe could indeed be one of the acenters of attractiona in the coming NCAA basketball championship. At 6-foot-8 and possessing a body built for basketball, Ekwe could be the missing link in San Beda's bid to...

Oil firms increase prices; Gasoline, diesel, and kerosene higher by 50 centavos.
Byline: MYRNA M. VELASCO Imported crude costs are blamed for adjustment With international oil prices rising to record levels, local oil companies yesterday raised pump prices of gasoline, diesel and kerosene by P0.50 per liter. Oil players Total Petroleum, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation...

Sefi Atta. Everything Good Will Come.
Sefi Atta. Everything Good Will Come. Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2005. 336 pages. $24.9.5. ISBN 1-56656570-7 SEFI ATTA'S Everything Good Will Come put me into a spell from the first page to the very last. As if questioning the spell of the first reading as a hoax, I...

Oil prices soar to record high of over $59/barrel.
Byline: MARYELLE DEMONGEOT SINGAPORE, June 20 (Reuters) Oil prices soared to a record high above $59 a barrel on Monday, extending last weeks surge as a threat against Western consulates in OPEC-member Nigeria jolted traders already worried about tight supplies. Oil climbed more than 9...

Asian stock markets mostly decline on record-breaking rise in crude oil.
SINGAPORE, June 20 (Reuters) US oil hit a record above $59 a barrel on Monday, with traders fearing both strong demand and limited supply, pushing most Asian stock markets lower but prompting strong gains in resource shares. Traders placed the next psychological target for a barrel of...

Sunday Afolayan. Beyond the Silent Grave.
Sunday Afolayan. Beyond the Silent Grave. Ibadan, Nigeria. Spectrum Books (African Books Collective, distr.) 2002. 251 pages. 6.95 [pounds sterling]/$11.95. ISBN 978-029-281-0 THE YOUNG AND WELL-EDUCATED Shola Badmus of Lagos has already courted and subsequently ended his relationship with Wura, who is above his own social station....

Shakara Dance-Hall Queen: A Play About Mothers & Daughters. (Nigeria).
Osonye Tess Onwueme Shakara Dance-Hall Queen: A Play About Mothers & Daughters San Francisco/Lagos. African Heritage (African Books Collective, distr.). 2000 viii + 116 pages. $12.50/6.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978-35158-2-9 THE PLOT CENTERS on four females: seventeen-year-old friends Shakara and Dupe; their respective mothers, Omesiete and Madame...

Kalakuta Republic. (Nigeria).
Chris Abani. Kalakuta Republic Kwame Dawes, intro. London. Saqi Books 2000. 116 pages. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (8.95 [pounds sterling] paper) ISBN 0-86356-973-0 (322-8 paper) MAYBE BECAUSE HE IS relatively young and currently lives in England, Chris Abani is not a familiar name in Nigeria or Nigerian literature....