You don’t have to call it a publishing firm when from the outset your business is to take money from writers to print their works… There is a new publisher in...
Author - E. E. Sule
E. E. Sule is the pen name of Sule E. Egya, a professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and of the African Humanities Program. Besides academic work, Egya also writes poetry and fiction. His poetry volume What the Sea Told Me won the 2009 ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize, and the AWF/Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry. His novel Sterile Sky was long-listed for NLNG Prize for Nigerian Literature in 2012, and won the 2013 Commonwealth Prize, Africa Region.
Dul Johnson, Deeper into the Night Makurdi: SevHage Publishers, 2014, 273 pp. ISBN: 978-9-7852595-4-4 Price: N1,500 With two collections of short stories, a...
Okigbo’s Flute Logistics! Okigbo staggers awake! Multitude of amputated metaphors – a procession of progeny Bearing a calabash of broken poetries to the...
The poet, scholar and social critic Niyi Osundare recently published a collection of poems. Something is strange about this collection. It is the first of the...
Perhaps the first thing that strikes one about this novel is its desire to be a poetic rendition. The signs of this desire are palpable and pervasive...
– Maiwada, Ahmed. Musdoki. Abuja: Mazariyya Books, 2010. – Ogezi, Isaac. Waiting for Savon. Lagos: Hybun, 2009. – Okenyodo, Odoh Diego. From...
We lived in a tenement house at Kawo. It contained thirteen room-and-parlours. What first struck me about the house was its brown zinc roof. The walls had...
There are dangers of catholicity, and there is a peculiar academic delusion that is incumbent on professors of literature to praise anything ever produced in...
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...
Eko o Nii Baje: a Collection of Short Stories on the Challenges, the Fun and the Excitement of Living in a Megacity. Nelson Publishers, 2008. Pp. 163. Eko o...
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...
Language is the greatest pitfall of the upcoming generation – Titi Adepitan I begin by explaining the semanticisation of the coinage...