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Omosun Sylvester Tribal Poetry blog

Benjamin Oboro Ubiri, Emman Shehu, Ahmed Maiwada, Zainab Alkali, etc.

This site is neither "official" nor "commercial" in any way, and does not represent Doris Lessing or her publishers. It is my own personal project, and, therefore, reflects my own sensibilities.

Diran Adebayo has been hailed as one of the most original literary talents around. His first novel, the acclaimed Some Kind of Black, a nineties' coming of age story, broke new ground for the London novel, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won him the Saga Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club's 'Best First Novel' Award, and the Writers Guild's New Writer of the Year for 1996. His second novel, 'My Once Upon A Time', received more rave reviews. It was been called "an exhilarating, magical fairytale for our times" and a novel that "turns the private eye genre on its head". Diran has also written stories for BBC TV and radio, has been a columnist for 'New Nation' newspaper, and broadcasts and writes frequently on social and cultural issues for organs ranging from 'The Culture Show' to 'The Guardian'. In 2003, he co-edited 'New Writing 12' (Picador), an anthology that showcases new UK and Commonwealth writing. He is currently writing his third novel, 'The Ballad of Dizzy and Miss P'. He is a member of the national Council of the Arts Council of England, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Writings of the general word's body by Molara Wood, writer and arts journalist now based in Lagos.

Nnedi Okorafor was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at Chicago State University. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her daughter Anyaugo.

A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and thrice the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize (1988, 1994 and 2004).