Tag Archives: Literature

A — Z Life Lesons by Tolulope Akanni

Tolu Akanni describes him­self as “a vision­ary and dynamic youth with a rare and unique pas­sion sent on a mis­sion to bring out the best in peo­ple to the end of see­ing men live up to their full capac­ity.” He is a blog­ger I first encoun­tered through his place at El Fiz Con­cept. I liked

olufemi terry//stickfighting days

i read the Caine Prize-winning stick­fight­ing days by olufemi terry yes­ter­day. boy. writ­ing is such an inter­est­ing thing. we all have such dif­fer­ent psy­ches, so many dif­fer­ent ener­gies and urges man­i­fest­ing within us. i hon­estly had to won­der what would pos­sess some­one to write a story about street chil­dren blud­geon­ing each other to death with

Literature is a Minority Affair

A review of Niger­ian lit­er­ary blogs by Akin­labi of Ayemidun. Lit­er­a­ture is always a minor­ity affair. Even in the blo­gos­phere where we are con­tin­u­ally inun­dated with mas­sive pro­lif­er­a­tion of voices and con­cerns. Yet, a lit­er­ary blog posses more dan­ger to struc­tured schol­ar­ship than any other kind of blog. The idea of a lit­er­ary blog is