Waiting for Caine 2013
by Kola Tubosun What will the Caine Prize judges be looking for this year? Topicality? Politics? Dexterity? Profundity? Conflict? Emotion? Complexity? Looking at a set of shortlisted stories that[…]
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Tope Folarin Speaks to NigeriansTalk
Tope Folarin is on the shortlist of this year’s Caine Prize shortlist, along with Elnathan John, Chinelo Okparanta, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Pede Hollist. His short story Miracle, has been reviewed[…]
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No, Not “America”, but Love – A Review
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[…]
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The Fledgling Whispers of a Story – A Review
by Kola Tubosun This week, I discuss my thoughts on Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Whispering Trees, the fourth story on the shortlist of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Many other[…]
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Musing With Victor Ehikhamenor
Since returning to Nigeria from the United States in 2008, Victor Ehikhamenor has worked as a journalist, writer, graphic artist, photographer, and the creative director of 234NEXT newspaper. Of his[…]
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The Travails of Logan – A Review of “Foreign Aid”
by Kola Tubosun I began reading this story with trepidation, and a worry that after reading Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi” which moved me in a disturbing yet endearing way, and Tope Folarin’s “Miracle”,[…]
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Losing a Faith You Never Had – A Review of “Miracle”
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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The Children of “Bayan Layi” – A Review
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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The 2013 Caine Prize Shortlist
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[…]
On Race, Hair, and Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘Americanah’
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[…]