Writers are heartbreakers. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, winner of the 2016 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, breaks hearts with ease and...
The opening lines are passionate, promising and effervescent. In between these early lines, it becomes glaring that Jumoke Verissimo’s A...
There is no way you will read NoViolet Bulawayo’s sophomore novel, Glory, and George Orwell’s Animal Farm will not keep...
Greedy leaders. Looting. Colonialism. Neocolonialism. Fake drug dealers. Power cuts. Money-laundering. Hunger. Cultural diversity. Deceit. Amalgamation. Motion without movement. Ethnocentrism....
The judges for the 2022 James Currey Prize for African Literature have released the longlist of 10 writers. On the...
It starts with a storyteller captivating an audience with a gripping tale about a man tempted by a water demon:...
Tokunbo Afikuyomi was very popular in the Lagos politics of 1999-2007 era. In those eight years, he represented two different...
At the time Mojisola arrives Johannesburg from Cape Town, Yinka—her daughter who leaves home after catching her professor father pants...
There is the possibility that Umar Turaki’s novel, Such A Beautiful Thing To Behold, will amaze and excite you in...
From the onset, Nomad, the Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning collection of over sixty poems by Romeo Oriogun, shows something striking,...
Not just another immigrant tale: A review of Bisi Adjapon’s “Daughter in Exile” — Olukorede S Yishau
Bisi Adjapon proudly wears three citizenship caps: She is Ghanaian, Nigerian and American. These three powerful countries find voice in...
LT Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru is dead but his good deeds will live almost forever. That is a likely conclusion a...