Interview, Review

Questioning Motive in Political Participation: A Review of Obari Gomba’s Grit

-Valentine Owhorodu Obari Gomba is a poet, playwright, and academic at the University of Port Harcourt. His play, Grit, won the prestigious Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2023. The play has an episodic plot, as it begins at the end when Pa Nyimenu’s family is enmeshed in violence among rioters, party thugs, and policemen. With the use of flashbacks, we get connected with the origin and progression of the … Continue reading Questioning Motive in Political Participation: A Review of Obari Gomba’s Grit

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Essay, Once Upon Three Roads| Issue 001

The Harm Beneath the AI Hype

Olalekan Adepoju, PhD The world is currently experiencing a radical change and our understanding of how we exist in it keeps changing; all thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Broadly defined, AI refers to machine learning systems that make predictions based on statistical models constructed from vast quantities of data. From the workplace to education, entertainment and to virtually every aspect of our lives, the unthinkable vastness of these data systems has necessarily enabled a more efficient way … Continue reading The Harm Beneath the AI Hype

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Once Upon Three Roads| Issue 001, Poetry

Desire

The blood beneath my skin is white when you place it under the white lights.  I remember that January, its crisp touch of bright mistSpreading. I remember Allen, his body a home we haveJust returned to, after hearing that dozens of mothersJumped off Third Mainland bridge into their children’sFuneral. The elegies were inherited, almost lyrical thatThe Newspapers clouded the day, full of listeners.They did know … Continue reading Desire

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