E. E. Sule
E. E. Sule is the pen-name for Dr. Sule E. Egya. He teaches Creative Writing, African Literature and Modern Literary Theory in the Department of English & Literary Studies, University of Abuja, Abuja FCT, Nigeria. He is the author of Impotent Heavens (a collection of short stories); Dream and Shame (a collection of short stories); Naked Sun (a volume of poetry); Knifing Tongues (a volume of poetry); The Writings of Zaynab Alkali (a critical book, co-authored with Umelo Ojinmah); In Their Voices and Visions: Conversations with New Nigerian Writers (a book of interviews), and What the Sea Told Me (a volume of poetry). His poems, short stories, literary and scholarly essays have appeared in journals, e-journals, anthologies and literary magazines in Nigeria, the USA, Germany, Spain, India, the UK, Senegal, etc. He has read his works to audiences both in Nigeria and abroad. In 2007, he had a nine-month writing residency in Senegal where he worked under the mentorship of the world class Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah.
Entries by this Author
Literary Voices Alike: Maiwada, Ogezi, and Okenyodo - By E. E. Sule
- By E. E. Sule
- Published August 22, 2010
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These works are different insofar as they are placed side by side with what are being churned out in Nigeria today, especially by writers, highly narcissistic, who are yet to go through the rigour of writing. The originality of these works is blemished by the fact that they smell too much of modernist art. But, perhaps, their rather troubling leap a century backward is to remind us that modernism, especially in Nigerian literature, will continue to linger in some disguises...Living With Mice - A Short Story by E. E. Sule
- By E. E. Sule
- Published January 3, 2010
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The house was fully awake. Mama Peter was shouting at Peter to finish shitting quickly. He was sitting on a potty. Ado was also sitting on a potty in front of their room, one of his small legs stretched, the other bent at the knee. His head rested on his left palm and he seemed to be dozing. I saw Rekiya, dressed in tattered pyjamas, playing with her new doll. Mama Bulus sat in front of her room, her fat legs stretched out. Turaki, her youngest child, sucked her large breast while standing. Mama Bayo had lit her stove beside her door, warming something that looked like leftover food. Her daughter, Julie, squatted beside her. The stove exuded dark smoke. I saw Ramatu, the daughter of Baba Rafatu’s first wife, tugging at her mother’s wrapper, whining...After the Storm: NLNG Poetry Prize’s Report and Matters Arising
- By E. E. Sule
- Published December 2, 2009
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Let those who want to be real poets return to their desks, to their privacy, to their consciences, where the only prize is the rigour of writing, the quest to touch humanity, the desire to surpass the self. It is hard to accept: paradoxically, literary prizes, in Nigeria and abroad, have reduced the worth of our literature!Chaos and Catharsis: A Review of Eko o Nii Baje
- By E. E. Sule
- Published April 4, 2009
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Eko o Nii Baje is unique in its thematic direction because, more than any single work of fiction, it historicises the terrible mess Lagos became in the years of military oppression and lawlessness. It also historicises the cannibal response of our self-made leaders to the Nigerian condition...A Journey through Ikere-Ekiti with Niyi Osundare
- By E. E. Sule
- Published April 4, 2009
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Humour. Geniality. Conviviality. Niyi Osundare is all of those, and more. A visit with him to Ikere-Ekiti, his birthplace, was full of fun and education, and the rare opportunity of sharing the “poetry of presence” overflowing around him...Stingy Dad - A Short Story by Emmanuel Sule
- By E. E. Sule
- Published May 16, 2007
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Dad was criminally stingy. I didn't know how he happened to be so. But I knew mum had always stared at him, dusted up all the courage she had and sputtered harsh words on dad because he did one stingy thing or the other...
Beyond Social Commitment, Meaning and Audience: Towards the Soyinkanisation of Nigerian Literature
- By E. E. Sule
- Published May 4, 2007
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Whichever way we like or hate Soyinka's writings, we must recognise that the man has craft. To ignore this fact or give it a backhanded dismissal is to expose our ignorance of what real craft is...
Literary Language and Recent Nigerian Fiction
- By E. E. Sule
- Published November 29, 2005
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The Nigerian literary scene still possesses a womb for begetting great fictionists of our time against the self-important stands of listserve-popular critics like Olu Oguibe that a great writer is not in sight in the third generation of Nigerian writers. Or against the my-generation-is-better-than-yours stands of Niyi Osundare, Femi Osofisan, Charles Nnolim and other actors of the other generations...
In Her Prime, The Male Monster: A Review Of Unoma Azuah's "Sky-High Flames"
- By E. E. Sule
- Published November 14, 2005
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Azuah's treatment of the African culture is interesting because, like Chimamanda Adichie, she regards her culture as too good and instrumental to be totally jettisoned. So, it is not the culture, but the greed of the people in the culture that brings infamy to the culture...