3rd September, 2012 PRESS RELEASE Lagos Shortlist of 10 for The Nigeria Prize for Literature, 2012. The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature led...
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2013-2014 Writers’ Fellowships at Cullman Center, NY (up to $65,000 stipend | international) Deadline: 28 September 2012 (Note: Foreign nationals ...
I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this story, which recounts the experiences during the second world war of a character nicknamed ‘Bombay’. While it is...
Why do you prefer magical realism to other genres? I am not sure there is a preference. In The Whispering Trees I think there is an attempt to balance magical...
What (else) would you like readers to know about you that you think is not already out there? My unpublished works and the ones I am still writing. A writer’s...
Farafina Books will be launching the print version of Eghosa Imasuen’s Fine Boys, which has been recently released. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be hosting...
Poet, short story writer and public commentator Bob MajiriOghene will be the major featured writer at the August 25 edition of the Guest Writer Session, an...
Djimon Hounsou reads the essay “How Not to Write About Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina.
CHINUA ACHEBE: In my new book, There was a Country-A Personal History of Biafra, I point out that when a number of us [i.e. African writers] decided to pick up...
BY ANOTE AJELUOROU How much research did you carry out in writing Bombay’s Republic? The narrative was part of a series which traced West African history from...
By Yemi Adebisi Let’s look at the future of Nigerian literature. What do you think of it? Nigerian literature is also even by itself problematical because I...
