Accomplished South African-based Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s special documentary film Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest is one of the selected films showing at the 2013 Cinema Africa Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan. This year’s Cinema Africa event, which started on 18 May and will run till 23 May, also has on the lineup features, [...]
Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra, has said that the state was ready to accord Prof. Chinua Achebe a befitting burial. Obi stated this while inspecting the St. Philip’s Anglican Church, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area, where the burial service will take place on 23 May. The governor had inspected Achebe’s country home and [...]
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, in an interview with Sahara Reporters, speaks on his relationship with compatriot, Chinua Achebe and slams those, he describes as ‘an incorrigible sect’, promoting lies that his Nobel prize poisoned the relationship. Excerpts… “Well then, this prospect that “my 1986 Nobel Prize in literature poisoned my personal relationship with a [...]
NEHRU ODEH Five writers have been shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African writing. Of the five writers shortlisted, five of them are Nigerians. They are Elnathan John, Tope Folarin, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Chinelo Okparanta. The fifth shotlisted writer, Pede Hollist is from Sierra Leone. Announcing the shortlist Wednesday 15 May, the Chair [...]
The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday in America, won the Lifetime Achievement award of the annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The other winners are Andrew Solomon for Far From The Tree (Non-Fiction), Eugene Gloria for My Favorite Warlord (Poetry), Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds (Fiction) and Laird Hunt for Kind [...]
The latest James Bond novel is named “Solo” and will follow the suave British spy on an African adventure, its author William Boyd revealed on Monday. “The journey Bond goes on takes in three continents — with the main focus honing in on Africa,” Boyd told the London Book Fair. “It’s what happens to Bond [...]
H. A Goodman, has never been known to write boring novels. When he released his debut novel, Logic of Demons, in 2010, he took the literary world by storm. Now, the former financial advisor and high school History teacher has released another fictional work, Breaking The Devil’s Heart. The Fantasy Book Review UK described it [...]
