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by Kola Tubosun This week, as part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the second story: Tope Folarin’s Miracle, first published in the[…]
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by Kola Tubosun As part of my five-week blogathon on the five shortlisted stories in the 2013 Caine Prize, I present some thoughts on the first story: Elnathan John’s Bayan Layi, first published at http://www.percontra.net/issues/25/fiction/bayan-layi/. ______ Bayin Layi is a[…]
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by Kola Tubosun Fantastic news! Out of this year’s five shortlisted stories for the annual Caine Prize for Writing, four of the stories are from Nigeria. This is unprecedented in[…]
Book Review by Blessing Omakwu When I heard Chimamanda Adichie was writing a new book that drew heavily from hair and race as themes, I was excited for two[…]
I once attended a conference in Ibadan on the authenticity of Nigerian pidgin as a distinct Nigerian language worthy of both codification and general use. On the one hand, it[…]
On April 9, Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor announced the acquisition of her new book Lagoon by the publishing house Hodder & Stoughton. As published on her blog, “at its heart a story about[…]
by Dami Ajayi It always begins with a song. Then memory sets in. Soon you are coursing down familiar roads, back streets, broken waters. Suddenly, you are back here[…]
(for Ken Saro Wiwa) By Emmanuel Uweru Okoh My keen cry to Kenule: I, Fubara, of disjointed Fishnet and gaping boat, from the land of kernel Back feeling and staggering[…]