Farafina magazine was started in 2004 as an online magazine. The first issue of the print magazine was published in October of 2005. It is a bimonthly publication. The magazine is dedicated to the best in contemporary ideas; intelligent without being pompous, well researched without being academic and opinionated without being pedantic. The magazine publishes everything from photo essays to cartoons, art interviews to political exposes, narrative essays to short stories.
http://www.farafinamagazine.com
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Farafina Books is an independent publisher of literary fiction, popular fiction, textbooks, coffee table books, general interest books and children books. Our focus is to make good quality and affordable books on Africa or by Africans available to a global audience.
http://www.kachifo.com
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A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe," Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed.
http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/
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Founded in 1990, the Akademie Schloss Solitude is a foundation under public law. According to its statutes, its task is to promote mainly younger, particularly gifted artists by means of residence fellowships, and by organizing public performances, readings, concerts and exhibitions by its residents. Akademie Schloss Solitude is subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg Lottery.
http://www.akademie-solitude.de
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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).
http://tanureojaide.com
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The New Gong is a publishing media company based in Nigeria. It provides a wide range of mass media services including book, magazine and image publishing. The company also provides photographs and illustrations for both print and online publishers.
http://www.thenewgong.com
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