In the interview granted to The Guardian, Mr. Samuel Kolawole suggested that Nigerian literary works that win prizes abroad are culturally irrelevant to...
Author - Chielozona Eze
Nigerian writer and philosopher, I teach African and World literatures at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.
Greek mythology has it that Sisyphus, once the king of Ephyra (Corinth), was condemned by the gods to roll a big chunk of stone up a steep hill...
A few days ago, some friends and I exchanged ideas on the nature of the Nigerian mentality, part of whose characteristic is mob-temper. That left me thinking...
The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, awarded biennially, is, to many, the most prestigious prize of the fiction genre in Africa. Touted as...
Contemporary Nigerian narratives have awakened some renewed international interests in the past few years after the hiatus that followed Ben...
Lola Shoneyin, Song of a Riverbird. Lagos, Nigeria: Ovalonion House, 2002. 72pp In 1998, Lola Shoneyin published her first poetry collection, So All the...
Emeka Agbayi. Stars Die. Lagos, Nigeria. Hybun Publications International, 2004. Pp. 73 The title of Emeka Agbayi’s poetry collection, Stars Die, and the...
