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By Su’eddie Vershima Agema:- Tarlumun gazed at Amina. He tried to pick out what it was about her that held him most captive. It wasn’t much of a successful exercise. …
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By Su’eddie Vershima Agema:- Tarlumun gazed at Amina. He tried to pick out what it was about her that held him most captive. It wasn’t much of a successful exercise. …
Lust intervention Read MoreSaddiq M. Dzukogi recently released his third collection of poetry, Sunbeams & Shadows. In this interview with AWAAL GATA, he discusses his maturity as a poet and the spell in …
The spell in which ‘Sunbeams & Shadows’ was written – Dzukogi Read MoreTitle: Meditation: Faint Whispers of Reminiscence Background: ‘Meditation: The Faint Whispers of Reminiscence’ is a poem collection having over a hundred poems in it. It canvases complex pictures …
A glimpse into Abu’s collection Read More• Sign up to be emailed a “Word of the Day” using one of the many online dictionaries. You can also procure for yourself a Word of the Day calendar; …
How to build your vocabulary (III) Read MoreBy Ibrahim Ramalan Tittle: An Image of Africa and the Trouble with Nigeria Author: Chinua Achebe Publishers: Pengium Books Ltd. England Year: 1983 …
Through the lens of Chinua Achebe Read MoreAnother exciting edition of the Guest Writer Session comes up on May 31, 2014 as the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF) hosts writers Chude Jideonwo and Samuel Kolawole, as well as …
AWF Hosts Jideonwo, Kolawole and Olufeta Read MoreIt is not likely a writer would attain his full creative potentials irrespective of what circumstances, whether favourable or unfavourable. A writer does not have to get to his peak …
Filcreates Art Writers Read MoreMarlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His first novel “John Crow’s Devil” was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s prize and was finalist for Los Angeles Times book prize. …
Culture is a constant changing force – Marlon James Read MoreTitle: Sterile Sky Author: E.E. Sule Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd, Essex. Pages: 286 Year: 2012 E.E. Sule has been in the news lately for condemning the “culture heroism” (apologies Ato …
Slaughtered by religion: A review of E.E. Sule’s “Sterile Sky” Read MoreThe popular belief that artistes, because of the timelessness of their oeuvres, are ‘immortals’ was cemented last Thursday when a barrage of commendations were poured on the late author of …
“Arrow of God” at 50: Abuja children’s literary carnival Read MoreRegeneration and Art 2 In regeneration, conformity is a necessary activity. Conformity is living and acting for one’s conviction, wholly. It is a lonesome resolve and commitment to action for …
Regeneration and Art Read MoreThe Alili is a centipede; a centipede has one hundred legs. That is what it claims. The claim won the acceptance of nearly every animal in the verdant forest, giving …
Is Adichie like Achebe? Be not deceived by the Alili Read MoreThe so-called e-book “revolution” will soon go into decline, the founder of Waterstones has said, insisting that the traditional physical book is here to stay. Tim Waterstone, who founded the …
e-book revolution will soon go into decline, Waterstones founder says Read MoreThe Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York, recently hosted Chimamanda Adiche and Zadie Smith where both talked about their works and the role of …
Chimamanda Adiche and Zadie Smith chat at Schomburg Center Read MoreChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel is a superb dissection of race in the UK and the USA There are some novels that tell a great story and others that make …
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Review Read MoreAbdullahi Abubakar Two writers, Iresiri Samson and Yinka Olagbile, and a musician, Zainab Sule, will share the spotlight on the platform of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s March 29 edition of …
Trio for Abuja literary event Read MoreAt age 34, actress Sharon Stone went from being a relatively unknown actress to a household name when her provocative scene in the film “Basic Instinct” made her an overnight …
Sharon Stone says ‘ageless beauty’ doesn’t exist Read More— President plans re-launch of Bring Back the Book initiative The Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) plans to institute some programmes in honour of the literary icon and author of …
Jonathan, African writers set to honour Achebe Read MoreHow do you balance writing and your work as a barrister? Does your work help you as a writer? The irony is that I didn’t know that I was training …
A conversation with Ahmed Maiwada (III) Read MoreBelow is an interpretation of a poem (The Innerman) by this Columnist. Ferociously, the soul craves Intercourse with life Man’s quest to actualise his heart desires is limitless. In the …
Aesthetics of Being and Creativity (2) Read More(To My Mother In-law, Lady M. C. Egeruoh, September 30, 1942 – January 27, 2014. Burial Friday, March 21, 2014) Everything worked out well According to plan. We had a …
We Had a Plan Read MoreNigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah, a feminist yarn about Ifemelu and the world around her, has been longlisted for the first longlist of the newly named Baileys Women’s …
Chimamanda Adichie’s feminist novel longlisted for Bailey’s fiction prize Read MoreCouldn’t hold you responsible With the exception of the players. Aren’t you seeing? You are absolutely different from Other creature with your two drumheads Covered by ordinary leather! Have you …
Talking drum Read MoreAfter years of dressing down to make the right impression, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wises up to a truth that her Nigerian mother has known all along As a child, …
Why can’t a smart woman love fashion? Read MoreEvery man is two; practical and imagined. They collaborate to make you famous or infamous. In the practical man, you have things like ‘this man/the man/that man/other man’. In the …
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