After a lavish puff of perfume at home, I made it for the African literary festival, Oxford; the brainchild of...
Nine debut books were among the 16 novels to make the cut in this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist,...
Very few news items have dominated the Nigerian media space as much as the dramatic termination of Onyeka Nwelue’s association...
In the last months before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown I chanced upon the autobiography of Edison Arantes do Nascimento in...
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my business of staying alive which includes going into...
2021 has come and gone and with headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic, many have described the year as a challenging...
George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) is a dystopian novel set in the year of its title. It is set in a...
For many decades in America, people used to ask each other: “Where were you when you heard JFK was shot?”...
This might be a good time to ask how did Onyeka Nwelue; university dropout, filmmaker, energetic cultural organizer, “tireless champion of African literature, significant and prolific author” get to Oxford?
As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge today, 16th September,...
Sam Omatseye and Uwem Akpan have more than one thing in common. They are both writers and they both have...
Writing has always been a pleasure. Even as a boy at school I looked forward to the class set aside...
