Members of the African diaspora last week transformed USC’s Bing Theatre into...
The announcement of London based curator, writer and lecturer Peju Oshin as...
The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of winner-takes-all. It is incumbent on me to plead now that the longlisted and shortlisted authors...
As I establish the Henry Louis Gates Jr Fellowship at Centre of...
“Be careful not to want any particular thing so much’’, an Arabic...
He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my alma-mater Great Ife (University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University)...
When I turned 70 in 2015, there was quite a sizeable coterie...
It is a Tuesday morning and I am up and about my...
So, it has happened! No one can claim it was nowhere fearfully expected, but one dared hope that the ugly, abominable word “reprisal” would remain locked down within the dark...
Sam Omatseye and Uwem Akpan have more than one thing in common....
A hugely sought after first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s...
Oscars season is finally upon us, and this time with some movies folks are excited about. But who currently stands the best odds of winning? For the first time in...
