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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:…

A Return To A Season Of Anomie

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.

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

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

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

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

Wholly Nigerian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination!

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