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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[…]
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Mafoya Doussoumon is the thirty-one year old author of a fascinating new book of essays titled African Expectations (Available on Amazon.com). I caught up with him for a one-one-one. _______ Tell[…]
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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[…]
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Dear Kola, I am responding a bit belatedly to your editorial, A Bird Sings Because… Many thanks for sharing. Facts are facts and opinions belong to their owner. I generally do not[…]
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By Peter Akinlabi Let’s begin with the space, for he was a man of immense spatial presence. Big, tall and fearfully dark, he occupied space like he owned it. Language[…]
by Sunmaila Umaisha (IFY OMALICHA’s collection of poems, Now that dreams are Born, published by Kraftgriots, 2011, p.141.) The Nigerian literary scene is fast becoming famous for churning out promising[…]
by Benson Eluma MANY A FINE poem is inspired by that complex of feelings called love. To make no bones about my subject, the love I speak of is simply[…]
By Yomi Ogunsanya A moment after I finished reading Unoma Azuah’s latest novel Edible Bones, the following lines from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding wafted into my mind: “What we call the[…]