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Festivals and the Sustenance of a Collective Memory
By Peju Layiwola A Calendar of Traditional Nigerian Festivals is truly a calendar that opens us to a systematic, month by month,…
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Yewande Omotoso: My Characters Determine The Course Of My Stories
Yewande Omotoso is an architect and novelist resident in Cape Town. Herwidely-acclaimed debut novel, Bom Boy, won the 2012 South African Literary…
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Ladipo-Manyika: Why I Chose To Write About Aging
Sarah Ladipo-Manyika is an accomplished academic and novelist. Her recently-published novella, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun, is the…
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Ake Arts and Book Festival’s Worthy Headliner
By Adefoyeke Ajao The use of language as a form of resistance dominated Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s speeches at the recently-concluded Ake…
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Book Chats Dominate AkeFest Programme
By Adefoyeke Ajao Proceedings at the 2016 Ake Arts and Book Festival have been dominated by interactive discussions with authors and experts…
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2016 Etisalat Prize For Literature Longlist Announced
By Adefoyeke Ajao The long list for the2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature has been announced. The list of nine books and authors…
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A Verdict’s Odyssey: J.P Clark on America
By Tade Ipadeola November is the month for the Lagos Arts and Book Festival, popularly called LABAF. This year, the country’s oldest,…
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Akinwumi Isola celebrated with a new book
By Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Professor Pamela Olubunmi Smith on Friday July 15 2016 publicly presented her new book, “Treasury of Childhood Memories”, an…
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Soyinka in Ebedi: Of hunters and storytellers
In Iseyin, Oyo State, Professor Wole Soyinka meets young writers on retreat and Asumo, his old colleague in his many hunting expeditions…
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100 posthumous birthday: What you don’t know about Hubert Ogunde
On 10 July, 2016, the late dramatist and doyen of African Theatre, Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, would be 100 posthumously. Many activities…
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