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Kokori Launches June 12 Memoir

The former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Frank Kokori today presented his…

3 Presidents For Soyinka Literature Prize

The biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for creative writing continues to grow in proportion with at least three serving heads of…

Users lament lack of books in Edo library

Readers and users of the Edo Library in Benin have lamented the poor infrastructure and outdated books stocked in the…

French book at Harvard library bound in human skin

Harvard’s university library on Friday in New York confirmed that test has shown that a 19th-century French book at the…

Maya Angelou Truly Phenomenal, says Niyi Osundare

She enriched our world with her astounding array of talents and accomplishments: she was a singer, dancer, composer, producer, actress,…

Wole Soyinka’s Tribute to Maya Angelou

Maya’s ‘AFRICA’ was more than a mere literary metaphor and reference point – it went beyond race identification. To obtain…

Literary society, authors to honour late Prof. Acholonu

An Evening of Tribute has been scheduled to hold in Abuja on 12 June in honour of the late literary…

US poet Maya Angelou dies at 86

Celebrated African-American author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died, the North Carolina university where she taught said…

10 authors make Glo-sponsored Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature

Ten African authors made the long-list for the 2014 edition of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. This…

Censors Board Action Absurd – Chimamanda Adichie

Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The author of,’ Half Of A Yellow Sun,’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said the action of Nigerian Video…

The Genius Of Obafemi Awolowo And The Contest For His Political Space

By Kunle Ajibade Bill Clinton, in an article he wrote for TIME magazine in 1999 titled “Captain Courageous,” described one…

Let Jonathan rescue abducted school girls now, says Soyinka

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka,has lashed out at President Goodluck Jonathan administration for its inability to rescue…

Nigerian writer,Ben Okri to be honoured by South African varsity

Ben Okri, the famous Nigerian author of ‘Famished Road’ will receive an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Autumn…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Farewell To The Magic Muse

By Niyi Osundare Gone, the Magic Muse of Aracataca. In a manner similar to his wondrous tales, I can see…

Sokoto Sultanate to establish female university

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, said on Saturday that arrangement has been concluded by the Sultanate Council to…

Godfather of magic realism, Garcia Marquez dies at 87

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship…

124 writers vie for NLNG Literature Prize

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Ltd, on Tuesday said that 124 entries had been received for the 2014 edition…

The Making Of My New Book

A book, Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics In Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo And Corporate Agency, will be presented to the public…

Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’ shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, Americanah has been shortlisted for the $50,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a…

My Life, My Writings

Dr. Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a child of many worlds. She is by birth Nigerian, has lived in East Africa,…

Nigerian poet seeks to reclaim Sahara Desert

Headlines portray the Sahara as a barren desert that claims the lives of many African migrants but Nigerian poet Tade…

Chimamanda, Nyong’o may collaborate on ‘Americanah’

Nigeria’s acclaimed writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has opened up about her work, her novels, the movie adaptation of ‘Half of…

Chimamanda’s Americanah wins Book Critics award

“Americanah,” a novel about race and identity by the acclaimed Nigerian author,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s has won the US National Book…

Zimbabwean Wins Etisalat Literature Prize

Nkrumah  Bankong-Obi Noviolet Bulawayo, a writer from Zimbabwe, has won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in Africa. Her novel,…

Cuba makes Hemingway trove available to US

HAVANA (AFP) – Cuba has released to US researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media…

Harry Porter author to publish new crime novel

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling will publish her second crime novel in June, it was revealed Monday, under the…

Omotoso, 2 others emerge finalists in Etisalat literature prize

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE After a retreat in Morocco where the judges met to discuss at length the nine longlisted books, Etisalat…

Soyinka Speaks To Africa

By Adebayo Lamikanra One of the great tragedies afflicting our continent is that the story of Africa and Africans has,…

Novelist Gunter Grass hangs up pen

Nobel prize-winning German writer Gunter Grass, author of “The Tin Drum” and one of Germany’s most influential if controversial intellectual…

Aviation, Safety And The Travails Of An Amazon

Title: THE BIG CONSPIRACY: The Travails Of A Progressive Safety Regulator In A Not-So-Progressive Aviation Industry Author: FOLASHADE ODUTOLA Reviewer:…
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