Literature

The Children of Oloibiri is the story of corruption, back-scratching, back-sliding and wanton self-destruction; a tale of sleaze and virtual disorder at the organisational level.

Prof. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was hosted at the Board Room 402, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos. She was guest author at the Department of English’s Reading Session, where she retired a few years ago.

When I spoke to Nwankwo about this, he laughed characteristically, and waved the whole thing aside, and asked me a rhetorical question about the integrity and probity of those who claimed to be critics and judges of Nigerian Literary works.

It was fun all the way at Pelican Hotel, Lekki, Lagos, at the official unveiling of a book, The Potent Force of Sponsorship, written by Omo-Ojo Ernest Ivie, who works in the oil and gas industry.

He recounts the many odds he surmounted while growing up to attain an illustrious life and how these experiences have mediated his philosophy of life that is actuated by the desire for justice and improvement of humanity.

In 1986, a tribe of Nigerian writers, journalists and academics were in Stockholm to celebrate the award of the first Nobel Prize for literature to a writer of African descent.

Toni Kan’s ‘The Carnivorous City’ delves into the criminal underbelly of Lagos, but it is not a crime novel in the strict sense.

The issue of culture and history took the centre stage at the formal presentation of Daniel O. Fagunwa’s book, Aspects of African and World Literary History, held at the Conference Centre of University of Ibadan.

Pop Errors In English, Writers Beware is Segun Omolayo’s contribution to Nigerian education and enlightenment in this knowledge driven age.

Spectrum Books Limited’s new offering, English For All Purposes: A Hands-on Guide for Excellence in the Use of English, is an encompassing, innovative book on the use of English at virtually all situations.

The purpose of that question is to show the direction you have to tailor your child’s creativity – solving real life issues. For children, however, the process begins with free expressions spurred by their active imagination.

Growing up I used to think that you had to be old enough, at least a young adult for you to write a book. Well those were my thoughts until I saw this lovely, colourful and creative book written by a five year old.