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Chimamanda’s Americanah wins Book Critics award

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“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

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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

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12 years ago

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

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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

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

Soyinka Speaks To Africa

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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

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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

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

A Return To A Season Of Anomie

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There are some events which, over the last 50 years or so, remain indelible in the memory of those who…

Moral issues raised over Lagos Chief Judge’s book launch.

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Henry Ojelu In the last two months, two books have been launched on the achievement of the Lagos Chief Judge,…

Tinubu to launch book on Obasanjo

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Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is billed to launch a…

I Have A Passion For Books

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As prominent Lagos residents filed into the Ikoyi venue of her 70th birthday celebration, Mrs. Laulat Gbemisola Tejuosho, owner of…

What Keeps Me Going As A Writer

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O’Yemi Afolabi, novelist, poet and writer of books for children, released ‘The Indigo Glass’, her debut novel in 2011 to…

Wholly Nigerian

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13 years ago

Lola Akande’s new offering, In Our Place, is a timely reminder of Nigeria’s quest for a truly united country Lost,…

Sickle Cell: The Dazzling Mirage

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A university don exposes challenges faced by Sickle Cell disease sufferers When Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, a lecturer at the Faculty…

Dalglish, Carragher rebuke Ferguson over book

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Liverpool greats Kenny Dalglish and Jamie Carragher have hit back at former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson for criticising the…

Championing The Cause Of African Women

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By Kunle Ajibade Let me begin with Chinweizu, the non-conformist pan-African intellectual who wrote The West and the Rest of…

Erelu Fayemi celebrates with books

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GBENRO ADESINA/ADO-EKITI Notable people in and outside Nigeria today gathered at Ado-Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State to shower encomiums on…

Nigeria’s Adichie says bestseller helped recall painful past

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Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the bestseller “Half of a Yellow Sun”, said writing a novel about the Nigerian…

Canada’s Alice Munro new Nobel Literature laureate

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Canada’s Alice Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties of…

Tade Ipadeola Wins 2013 NLNG Prize For Literature

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Tade Ipadeola, poet, lawyer and author of The Sahara Testament, has won this year’s Nigeria Prize for Literature. The price…

US novelist Tom Clancy dead at 66

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US author Tom Clancy, whose spy and military thrillers became worldwide best-sellers and inspired a raft of…

New Book: Nigerian-German learns granddad was Nazi killer

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BERLIN (AFP) – A steel-eyed Nazi killer picks off Jewish prisoners with a rifle from a balcony in a concentration…

Imagination!

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By dele jegede i. In the last ten hours or so, presentations have been made, discussions had, and views expressed…

When Kate Henshaw Presented Her Story

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Recently, celebrities from the Nigerian entertainment industry came together to support one of their own, Kate Henshaw, as she launched…

Govs Fayemi, Aregbesola, Others To Unveil Book

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Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun are billed to unveil a new…

Lagos Author Releases Inspiring New Book Nationwide

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This week, Lagos resident and author Bemigho Omayuku celebrates the nationwide release of her inspiring new book on personal growth…

Danjuma Buys Alabi-Isama’s Book For N10m

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Former Chief of Army Staff, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, retd, Thursday bought five copies of Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama’s book,…

Another Nigerian Wins 2013 Caine Prize

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A Nigerian, Tope Folarin, has won this year”s Caine Prize for African Writing. He won it with his short story,…

Wole Soyinka: Child Of The Forest Goes To Japan

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Accomplished South African-based Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s special documentary film Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest is one of the…

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