The Awele Creative Trust (ACT) has announced the shortlist for this year’s ACT Award, naming…
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Decorated novelist Chika Unigwe’s latest novel, Grace, raises several questions: Is survival ever morally neutral?…
March 10, 2026 marked seven years since multi-hyphenate – Poet/Prose Stylist/Academic/Public Intellectual, Pius Adesanmi, departed…
This year’s Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL) has unveiled a longlist of 11 exceptional writers,…
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), in partnership with NLNG, is set to host the…
The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025 has officially unveiled the highly anticipated longlist for the…
The literary world is abuzz with the announcement of the 2025 O. Henry Prize winners,…
…the arguments for or against Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor playing Okonkwo fail to take into account a key issue with the novel and the character of Okonkwo. When we meet Okonkwo, he was about 37 or 38 years and by the time he dies, might have been no more than 42. So, Elba and Ejiofor at 52 and 47 years respectively may well be too old to play Okonkwo
The Caine Prize for African Writing, one of the continent’s most prestigious literary awards, has…
Emerging writers from Northern Nigeria are being invited to apply for a unique opportunity to…
The Caine Prize for African Writing has unveiled its esteemed panel of judges for the…
In a heartwarming ceremony this past weekend, Belgium celebrated the acclaimed author Chika Unigwe, conferring…