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There was a story recently about a 20 year-old man who allegedly raped a nine-year-old girl to death.  According to him, he was walking her home when he was suddenly overcome with lustful thoughts. &#;I discussed with her and she accepted so I took her to one of the abandoned buildings that has [sic] been overtaken by weeds, where I told her to remove her underwear and she complied.&#; Because the place was filthy &#; &#;The uncompleted building is now used as a toilet&#; &#; he turned her around and told her to bend over so they could do it standing up. When she started to cry out in pain he thought she was &#;pretending&#;. The next thing he knew she had slumped.

 

This case was unusual only because the victim died. According to reports, the rape of underage girls has been on the increase over the last few years although, as with all statistics in Nigeria, nobody really knows.  What is certain, in any case, is that there must be many, many more than we read about in the pages of the newspapers for obvious enough reasons. The sole consolation, such as it is, is that the culprits can be charged to court under the country&#;s criminal laws, although given the stat

Being Lord Lugard

Frederick Lugard is a pivotal figure in Nigerian history. The colony’s first governor general, he effectively created and named it in , amalgamating a multitude of disparate ethnicities, languages and religions into one of the most patchwork countries in the world. He compared the subjects he conquered to ‘attractive children’.

In , Lugard had led an expedition through the ancient kingdom of Borgu on behalf of the Royal Niger Company, to secure treaties with the local emirs ahead of his French counterpart during the so-called European scramble for Africa. He succeeded except for the westernmost outpost of Nikki, which subsequently fell into what is now the Republic of Benin.

I was recently part of a strong delegation which retraced Lugard’s steps through what is now Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. ‘The Race to Nikki’ was the slogan painted on our lead vehicle, along with a photo of Lugard. As the only ‘mixed-race’, ‘half-caste’, ‘biracial’ (what you will) person on the trip, and therefore a white man in the eyes of the world’s most populous black nation, I found myself co-op




You are the co-founder of The New Gong which your website describes as â€˜publishers of new writing and images’ and, intriguingly, as ‘an experiment on how writers could be useful to each other beyond drinking together’.

 

Talk to us about the origins of The New Gong

 

The idea for The New Gong began to take shape at the tail end of my career as Series Editor of the African Writers Series (AWS) at Heinemann in Oxford, UK. I saw that the imprint was coming to an end. Dulue Mbachu, a good friend, writer and IT expert, had what I believed was a very good novel in his manuscript War Games.  I had a collection of essays that had been signed up for a publication that didn’t materialise due to a falling out with the publisher.  With Dulue as my partner, we decided it would be a good time to commit to founding The New Gong. We launched in  

 

What about the vision driving The New Gong? In particular the vision behind the collective approach, what you describe as ‘writers [being] useful to each other’.

 

First of all,we were determi

I should admit to a certain obsession with Diezani Alison-Madueke, our photogenic petroleum minister, although we are told that power itself is an aphrodisiac. She is also a rarity by the fact of her office alone, more so following the ignominious departure of her sister, Stella Oduah, the former aviation minister, who just didn&#;t fly it for me. It&#;s also important to many constituencies &#; and rightly so - that we should have more women in public office. On that score at least, President Jonathan himself has done his best to comply, most notably with the appointment of our coordinating minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose demeanour is hardly calculated to inspire the kind of salacious gossip provoked by the other two, including the precise nature of their relationship with Oga.

 

There is little doubt that many Nigerians &#; women as well as men &#; judge women by different standards than they do men, which is why there are so few of them in public office in the first place. This being so, it is also doubtless unfortunate that the women who do manage to break through should be expected to exhibit higher standards of conduct than their male counterparts but for the fa

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