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Press Release: “Giants of History”

  • April 9, 2014

Press Release/Announcement on “GIANTS OF HISTORY” – A book by Lateef Ibirogba Giants of History is a coffee-table non-fiction book for readers, writers, journalists, students, and other research or history-oriented[…]

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Valentine’s Day

  • February 15, 2014

These are the tiny memories that unravel me, the ones I don’t see coming. I miss her. And suddenly my eyes start tearing up and I am grabbing fistfuls of tissue, tilting my head back. I think of all these years she’s been gone that I’ve spent dating all the wrong men, trying to make it to the next holiday or birthday with them before breaking it off, a kind of madness. But never Valentine’s Day–on which I prefer to be single, to remember the feeling of being loved unconditionally by someone truly special, as was my mother.

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Be Your Own Binyavanga

  • December 30, 2013

“Don’t be a fucking victim. You can’t be living in the age of Google and cheap internet where you can find out the resources available to you as a young African writer through the social network and other avenues, waiting for your father to make the policy or arrangements for you is immoral. In fact it is evil. It’s your job to make it.”

Essays/Criticism · Fiction · Lit Mag · Literature · Writing

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No, Not “America”, but Love – A Review

  • June 20, 2013

by Kola Tubosun Here are my thoughts on the final story on the Caine Prize shortlist: Chinelo Okparanta’s America. Thoughts on earlier stories are here: Bayan Layi, Miracle, Foreign Aid and Whispering Trees. _________________ As far as[…]

Culture and Society · Writing

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4 Writers Commence the March-April 2013 Ebedi Residency

  • March 15, 2013

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,[…]

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RE: A Bird Sings Because… by Jeremy Weate

  • December 3, 2012

Ikhide, Let us be clear. I was disappointed with your comments a few months ago because you apparently deliberately confused two very different issues, as a means to slander our reputation as[…]

Culture and Society · Writing

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Sadeness

  • June 27, 2012

…He was beautiful. Beautiful, not handsome. Perfectly formed. Perfect in every way. E.v.e.r.y. Not meaning in all ways, just every way that I thought possible. And in ways I did[…]

Culture and Society · Literature · World Affairs · Writing

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chimamanda adichie on the maid in the dsk trial

  • December 27, 2011

chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou[…]

Literature · Writing

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With Love from my Toto

  • September 26, 2011

by Aloofar

Culture and Society · Literature · Writing

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Jacqueline Maduneme’s Ada’s Daughter – A review

  • June 27, 2011

Author – Jacqueline Maduneme Publisher/ Date – Pointed Arrows (May 2011) Book Title – Ada’s Daughter (356 pages) Genre – Memoir (Dysfunctional Families) Reviewer – Myne Whitman Source – Review[…]

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