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Nigerian writer and playwright Bode Sowande as well as nine others have been longlisted for this year's Nigeria Prize for Literature.

Bode Sowande, 10 others longlisted for $100, 000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

The winner of the prize, which is sponsored by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) and expected to be announced…
Milan Kundera, the Czech writer and one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century dies died in Paris on Tuesday. He was 94.

Milan Kundera, famous writer haunted by his own people, dies in exile at 94

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Kundera famously left his homeland in 1975 after earlier being expelled from the Communist party for "anti-communist activities" and spent…

Forms of Arrival and Absence: Sculptural Ceramic Series by Halima Badmus

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Ivory Origin's forms are intentionally economical in their composition. Every sculptured vessel seems reduced to its most basic form, devoid…
Africa's literary giant, activist, feminist and literary critic, Professor Micere Githae Mugo dies at 81 after protracted illness

Africa’s literary giant Prof. Micere Githae Mugo dies at 81

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Mugo, who until her demise was Professor of African studies at Syracuse University in New York was a revolutionary and…
Ayegbayo Damola

Beauty of African women at World of Women NFT art project

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Ayegbayo Damola is planning to hold an international exhibition in the nearest future and also release new series of artworks…
Chimamanda Adichie

Chimamanda wins Indie Book Award for non-fiction

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

By Nehru Odeh Bestselling writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won this year’s Indie Book Award for non-fiction for Notes On…
Prof. Wole Soyinka discusses African leaders and Russia- Ukraine war at the unveiling of "Putin's Files," his latest intervention series

It’s too late to act now: Prof. Wole Soyinka blasts African leaders

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Soyinka also lambasted not just African leaders but also Africans in general for playing the ostrich in the face of…
Made Kuti, Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti at Felabration, Afrikan Shrine

Felabration 2023 kicks off October 9 with theme “Question Jam Answer”

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

Felabration is a week-long celebration of Fela's legacy as the creator of the Afrobeat genre and as a renowned human…
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Why I wrote a book on my love affair with Fela – Sandra Izsadore

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Izsadore, formerly known as Sandra Smith, said she did not write the book for profit but so that readers and…
Victor Edogun

AMAZON, SELAR, NERDC approve Victor Edogun’s books

Kazeem Ugbodaga

3 years ago

The approval means the highly educative and entertaining books are now available for global distribution as Paperbacks, as well as…
Ama Ata Aidoo

Famous writer Ama Ata Aidoo dies at 81

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

A university professor, Ata Aidoo won many literary awards including the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Changes, a love story…
ISESE has always been with humanity, and will remain for all eternity.

Wole Soyinka in Brazil for Africa Week

Isa Isawade

3 years ago

The African Pride, which is organising these programmes, seeks to encourage a mutual exchange of ideas on how Africa will…
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov

Why Bulgarian writer won €50,000 International Booker Prize

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

Time Shelter’s win marks the second year in a row that the award has gone to a book in a…
Famous British novelist Martin Amis has died at the age of 73

Tributes pour in as famous British novelist Martin Amis dies at 73

Ayorinde Oluokun

3 years ago

One of the most celebrated British novelists, Amis is best known for his 1984 novel Money and the 1989 work…

Companions of the Cave at Muson Centre: A Theatre Review of Myth and Meaning

Michael Adesina

3 years ago

There is something quietly ambitious about staging a morality play in Lagos. In a city where theatre must compete with…
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