Culture

Timeless Critique: 1979 Nigerian Magazine Echoes Today's Unanswered Questions

A 1979 Nigerian publication, New Culture magazine, continues to spark debate, as a recent Ibadan gathering revisits its prescient questions. Decades later, its commentary on national issues remains startlingly relevant. This re-examination highlights Nigeria's enduring quest for societal and political resolution.

Tribune Online·August 19, 2026AI-curated

By Odunayo Odedoyin IN the theatre room at the new culture studio in Ibadan, a handful of readers pass around photocopied pages of a magazine that stopped printing before most of them were born. The magazine is New Culture, published for just eleven issues between November 1978 a

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