Art Could Have a Political Opinion
“This is what I will always try to do in my stories.” by Eghosa Imasuen The first Achebe book I read was Chike and the River. I remembered the way[…]
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Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
If what has been reported in various places online, and comments from close family members and colleagues are anything to go by, Africa’s foremost novelist and author of the famous Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, has passed[…]
4 Writers Commence the March-April 2013 Ebedi Residency
Yewande Omotosho, a Nigerian-Barbadian, naturalised South African Citizen, is among the four female writers who have since commenced the March-April 2013 Ebedi Residency in Iseyin, Oyo State. The Cape Town,[…]
Editorial #16: For World Book Day
Growing up in the Nigeria of the eighties, without internet, the only other sources of connection with the larger world were the black-and-white (and later colour) television in the living[…]
Taps for Summer: Seven Seasons, Alien Seasons
by Ikhide Ikheloa For you … I have this note that says call me tomorrow Tomorrow never comes because I never call you Today never ends because you never[…]
Sometime in December
by Nonso Uzozie The breakable plate dropped from Yinka’s hand as she heard the loud explosion. It was too loud and earth-vibrating. She knew it was another explosion because[…]
Editorial #15: Of Limits and Expectations
The writer (and current winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature) Chika Unigwe was at a Secondary School in Lagos about a week ago, on invitation, to talk to literature students[…]
Love Is Madness & Something Like That
by Emmanuel Iduma This didn’t happen every day. A man and a woman were sitting by themselves beside a gutter.Her head was resting on his shoulders; his arm drew her close[…]