Would You Join a Virtual Book Club?
What’s better than reading a great story? Having someone to share it with! A book club is a group of people who read and discuss books together, after agreeing on which books to read, and at what pace. Book club meeting discussions can be very lively, enlightening, and enjoyable. The combination of people from different […]
Review of “The Slave Girl” by Buchi Emecheta
Title: The Slave Girl Author: Buchi Emecheta Place: England Publisher: African Writers Series,Heinemann Publishers. Pages:184 pages ISBN: 978 0 435 90997 0 “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Jean Jacques Rousseau states in The Social Contract. This popped up in my head while re-reading The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta. Freedom […]
Olanrewaju Adepetun Launches “Why School Doesn’t Guarantee Success”
Olanrewaju Adepetun studied political science at the University of Ibadan where he graduated with a second class upper division. He went back in 2009 for the master’s program and finished with a PhD. Grade. Currently, he works as a Trade Finance Expert in an international bank where he majorly focuses on import/export finance combined with […]
Participate in This Social Media Competition and Win Prizes!
Get your pen, voices, pencils and laptop ready for the social media contest/challenge in the areas of Spoken Word and Artworks (photography, artistic drawing, and graphic design). This is organised by Leap Africa in collaboration with African Artists’ Foundation in order to commemorate the International Youth Day in Nigeria. International YOUTH DAY is commemorated every […]
12 Websites to Read African Short Stories for Free
How do you make use of the time lapses during daily commutes or unexpected long waits? Our smartphones offer a variety of things we can do from social media to gaming and surfing the web. For book lovers, carrying a book along is very common. But reading paper books on the go can be quite […]
Top 10 Literary Works by Wole Soyinka
In celebration of Mr. Wole Soyinka’s 81st birthday on Monday, we have compiled a list of the prolific writer’s most memorable plays… 1. The Lion and the Jewel: Performed in 1959 at the Ibadan Arts Theatre, this was one of Soyinka’s first plays in Nigeria. It interestingly explores the conflict between modernity and tradition […]
South African Writer, Songeziwe Mahlangu Wins 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature
South African author, Songeziwe Mahlangu, has emerged winner of the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature competition at the ceremony which took place on Sunday at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos. The Cape Town resident won the prize for his debut novel ‘Penumbra’, a story of the life of an underachieving young man suffering from mental […]
Call for Entries Into the Splendid Literature Series 2014
By Damola Olofinlua Entries are invited from all over Nigeria for the Splendid Literature Series. This annual competition hopes to select and publish the best twelve unpublished stories by young Nigerian writers of children’s literature resident in Nigeria. RULES AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY All entries must be original, unpublished prose works in English. Plays and […]
5 Minutes with Kemi Ogunniyi, Author, Tales of Mr. Tortoise
Kemi Ogunniyi, author of Foreign Otondo: Your NYSC Survival Guide, recently published her first children’s book, Tales of Mr. Tortoise. She talks to Connect Nigeria about her journey. 1. Tell us a bit about your professional background I’m a communications and business consultant. I specialise in helping small or medium enterprises develop their business […]
Great Reads: 10 Unforgettable African Classics
By Joy Ehonwa For decades, African writers have been unsung heroes, fit only for the school curriculum. However, many of their books are true classics that deserve to be read by adults outside of the formal education setting. Here are 10 exceptional novels written by Africans that we urge you to read this year: 10. […]
Book N Guage 14: For the Love of Books
This weekend, on Saturday, 28th July 2012, the Book N Gauge, Lagos’ leading literary and book culture event will take place. This fourteenth edition of the monthly event is titled “For the Love of Books” and will be featuring Emmanuel Iduma, author of “Farad”, and Myne Whitman, author of “Heart to Mend” and editor of Naija Stories. These two emerging voices will share with the audience their loves of books and their undying passion for promoting literary arts.
UNESCO Names Port Harcourt 2014 World Book Capital
The Rainbow Book Club has for a long time now been at the frontline of promoting literature in the country. Taking a bold step further from their annual literary event, they entered a bid in June this year to stage the bi-annual World Book Festival in Port Harcourt.
Nigeria’s Rotimi Babatunde Wins the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing
Described as Africa’s leading literary award, the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing was yesterday awarded to Nigeria’s Rotimi Babatunde. He took home a cash prize of £10,000 at the awards dinner held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, for his short story about Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during Worl War 2. The story entitled ‘Bombay’s Republic’ was published in ‘Mirabilia Review’.
Book Review: The Fine Boys Are Here
By Sylva Ifedigbo. “Fine Boys” was written by Eghosa Imasuen, a Nigerian author, born on 19 May, 1976. His first novel, “To Saint Patrick”, an alternate history murder mystery about Nigeria’s Civil War, was published by Farafina Books in 2008 to critical acclaim. “Fine Boys” is his second novel and will be available in print […]
Fidelity Bank International Creative Writing Workshop
The creative writing scene in Nigeria is flourishing, as workshops and conferences of international standard are being organized in the country. Last month applications opened for the 2012 edition of the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop, now a call for entries for the Fidelity Bank sponsored International Creative Writing Workshop has been made. For the […]
Wole Soyika Honoured at The Dedica Festival in Italy
Photographer and multiple award winner Akintunde Akinleye has opened an exhibition in honour of Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka in Pordenone, Italy. The photography exhibition commissioned by the THESIS—the organiser of the annual cultural festival tagged Dedica Festival was part of the activities lined up to honour the 1986 Nobel prize winner in literature—the first to have […]