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The Children’s Booker Prize celebrates best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old published in the UK and/or Ireland.

Children’s Booker Prize to be announced today

Ayorinde Oluokun

9 months ago

The inaugural £50,000 award will open for submissions in spring 2026, with the shortlist of eight books revealed next November.…
Lola Shoneyin and Gautier Mignot unveiling the Nigeria Picture Book Project

Book Buzz Foundation launches The Nigeria Picture Book Project

Ayorinde Oluokun

9 months ago

Lola Shoneyin, Founder of Book Buzz Foundation, said the Nigeria Picture Book Project, which marks a significant milestone for the…
Book Buzz Foundation

Book Buzz Foundation launches The Nigeria Picture Book Project

Isa Isawade

9 months ago

"I hope everyone here today will come back to celebrate, to purchase, and to share these books with the children…
Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy announces Hungarian author, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the winner of 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Ayorinde Oluokun

10 months ago

Krasznahorkai is best known for his 1985 novel 'Satantango' was given the award “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that,…
Seyi Shay finally opens up on relationship with baby's father

Seyi Shay opens up on importance of father figures

Abimbola Aderinola

10 months ago

She added that the narrative being spread about men's importance is an agenda created to divide families...
LIFI

Fun as Illustrators from across the globe rubbed minds in Lagos

Ayorinde Oluokun

10 months ago

A groundbreaking platform, LIFI is dedicated to nurturing and celebrating the art of children's book illustration.
The event themed ‘Enilolobo: Conversation based on Bunmi Oyinsan's new novel, 'Ladder of Bones' held on Sunday, August 17 in Lagos

How Bunmi Oyinsan blew minds at presentation of ‘Ladder of Bones’ in Lagos

Ayorinde Oluokun

11 months ago

In ‘Ladder of Bones’, a pun on British Historian Ellen Thorp’s similar title, Oyinsan tells the intriguing story of five…
Ademola Abiodun, BGOF PR

Ademola Abiodun, BGOF PR launches BlossomCare in collaboration with Eden AI

Michael Adesina

12 months ago

In Nigeria, the mental health needs of stigmatised women, especially pregnant teens and sex workers, are often pushed to the…
The Nigeria Prize for Literature releases the longlist for its 2025 prize featuring 11 books. This year's focus is on prose fiction

Just In: 2025 Nigeria Prize for Literature longlist unveiled

Ayorinde Oluokun

12 months ago

The prize is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited and carries a cash award of $100,000
It is getting to 25 years when Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes by Kunle Ajibade was published. A reissue is due. The arrest of Kunle Ajibade gave me nightmares. I was working with him in the same company when he was invited by agents of the satanic military junta of General Sani Abacha.

Jailed for Life: Beyond Death and Dictatorship

Michael Adesina

1 year ago

It is getting to 25 years when Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes by Kunle Ajibade was published. A…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What a stranger told Chimamanda Adichie that left her in tears

Oluwapelumi Oluwayemi

1 year ago

In an interview on Arise TV, the 47-year-old writer shared how thousands of readers worldwide pay to attend her literary…
Curved Fortunes is a reinforcement of Mark Nwagwu’s curiosity about life and elevation of poetry as a language of introspective expressions

A Review Of Prof. Mark Nwagwu’s “Curved Fortunes”

Ayorinde Oluokun

1 year ago

In Curved Fortunes, Mark Nwagwu does not offer us a book of poems; he offers a metaphysical storm clothed in…
Tunde Onakoya

Lola Shoneyin turns chess champ Onakoya’s inspiring story into a book for children

Isa Isawade

1 year ago

The colourful and beautifully illustrated book entitled "Tunde Onakoya The Chess Champion" was launched on 27 May, 2025 at Ouida…
The man who carried a city: Dr. Lanre Alfred celebrates Gov. Sanwo-Olu at 60

The man who carried a city: Dr. Lanre Alfred celebrates Gov. Sanwo-Olu at 60

Michael Adesina

1 year ago

Renowned author and biographer, Dr. Lanre Alfred, has unveiled a significant new title, “The Man Who Carried a City”, an…
Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, one of. Africa's foremost writers, thinkers and revolutionaries dies at the age of 87

Africa’s literary giant, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, dies at 87

Ayorinde Oluokun

1 year ago

Beyond his literary achievements, Ngũgĩ was a passionate revolutionary who vehemently opposed successive Kenyan regimes and tirelessly fought for a…
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