Not a total surprise
—Bulawayo’s win of first Etisalat African Book Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo’s win of the first Etisalat African Book Prize which centres on fiction written by an African in any part of …
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—Bulawayo’s win of first Etisalat African Book Prize: NoViolet Bulawayo’s win of the first Etisalat African Book Prize which centres on fiction written by an African in any part of …
Not a total surprise Read MoreCultural Centre-Calabar (2013) Cast: Tina Mba, Haji Bello, Benneth Ogbeiwe, Damilare Kuku, Zara Udifia, Bongolipso, Tom Godwin, Kemi Akindoju, Onyeka Fiaka. Playwright: Uche Nwokedi (SAN) Director: Kanayo Omo Reviewer: Ogunkoya, …
Kakadu… The musical (a story in song) Read MorePoetry is the language of the noble. It is the primary preserver of the essence of communication. Poetry gives differentiation from the ordinary to the extra-ordinary meaning of verbal communication. …
Spirituality in Poetry Read MoreDeep in the Sahel Across vast land, of shrubs and date Palm Herds of cattle raising a cloud of dust, As they cross to the Basin Sits a Dynasty. Evolved …
EL-KANEM…… Read MoreIn theory, this is a memoir, but the real subject is Nigeria, with Achebe as a bit player in a catastrophe. Students of Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s first and most …
Achebe’s lost country Read MoreAhmed Maiwada is one of the leading voices in contemporary Nigerian literature. Based in Abuja where he practises law, Maiwada gained attention with his two collections of poems, Saint of …
A conversation with Ahmed Maiwada (1) Read More—The poetry of Mao Zedong: People know Mao Tse Tung (or Zedong, as it is also represented in English) as a great Communist leader. Time Magazine named him one of …
Where classic chinese poetry meets violent revolution Read MoreCurrently soliciting crowd funding, scheme hopes to transpose website’s 2.6bn words onto paper for touring exhibition. It would run to over a million pages, featuring more than four million articles …
Wikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned Read MoreThere’s kind of no other way to say it: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of those women you feel good about fan-girling over. Whip smart and well-spoken, she has the …
Meet Beyoncé’s favourite novelist Read MoreWith the loss of my eyes I discovered sight I began to see beyond What I used to see with my naked eyes I began to see what is hidden …
The whispering trees Read MoreGiving Shape to One’s Universe I wrote most of my first novel, Waiting for an Angel, in Lagos, Nigeria, and if you have been to Lagos the fractured, discontinuous style …
Conflict and form: Giving shape to your writing Read MoreVery regularly, you hear people say to the younger ones that they must read and read to enable them succeed in life. Not many people understand that, it is not …
Reading is the way to good life Read MoreTwo writers and a singer/songwriter – Theophilus Abbah, Paul Liam and Christy Makut – will share the spotlight in the February 22 edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer …
AWF hosts Abbah, Liam, Makut Read MoreIn your third novel, Americanah, one of the characters warns about the inanity of asking what a book is about – “as if it were only about one thing”. But… …
My new novel is about love, race… and hair – Adichie Read MoreTime is the canvas on which life is painted; it is immortal, perfect and colourless. In civilisations past, time was a central character in their build, degeneration and demise, therefore, …
Artistry of Time in Creation Read MoreOn Saturday, 15th February, two of Nigeria’s leading writers, Lola Shoneyin and Toni Kan will meet to discuss matters of the bedroom. Kan – author of the bawdy collection Nights …
Writing sex, sexuality and morality – Toni Kan in conversation with Lola Shoneyin in Lagos Read MoreS. K. Mangal, in his book of Advanced Educational Psychology (second edition), 2008, came up with a number of scholars with their different opinions of what creativity contains in humans: …
Creativity and creative weirdness Read MoreA houseful of people Dancing, winning and dinning But how long would these last A week, months or years Why moon not stagnant like pond? Lightening can be so frightening …
Nature Read MoreThat Ernest Hemingway was, for years, the most celebrated writer in America is hardly surprising. After all, if he had written nothing besides, say, The Sun Also Rises, the early …
Hemingway in Cuba, 1952: Portraits of a legend in decline Read MoreThis year, African authors promise to attain another great milestone in their literary endeavours. Blueprint’s OYELOLA OGUNRINDE writes from Lagos on the novelists to watch Every year many novels are …
Novels to watch out for in Africa this year Read More