Literature

The top 10 entries for this year’s Quramo Writers’ Prize has been announced. The yearly prize, which is awarded to an unpublished fiction manuscript, is in its second year. Last year, Samuel Monye (QWP 2017) emerged winner for his manuscript, Give Us Each Day. A statement from Aduke Gomez, head of a five-member, jury said:…

Locomotifs & other Songs, written by Tosin Gbogi, a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, is a collection of poems. It is a ride fused with several voices such as, Osundare, Ekwuazi, Okinba Launko, et al, seeking several ends in a continuous mediation. It is a journey…

Title: Oil And Gas Activities; The Bayelsa Experience Author: Imgbi G. Stanley Publisher: Kadmon Printing Company, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State It might seem somewhat disingenuous to begin a review of a book by quarrelling with the appropriateness of its title but in this case the issue is at the heart of the impact and content of…

Nigeria’s foremost publishing company, University Press Plc, Ibadan, recently rewarded some of its loyal staff and customers, who demonstrated exceptional initiative throughout last year in their service to the company. While expressing his delight, chairman of the publishing form Dr. Lalekan Are, said it was the culture of the organisation to celebrate industrious employees and…

Title: Rescue Thyself: Change In Sub-Saharan Africa... Publisher: Hamilton Books Publication : 2017 It is not everytime you get to read a book that dissect the continent’s challenges from an ‘insider’ perspective. Most of the narrative on Africa are from the outside, especially those gleaned from the Western media. Rescue Thyself – Change in Sub-Saharan…

ALL the poems in the third quartet qualify as dazzling poems of militancy and of the environment. The poet may not intend his readers to see and appreciate them as lyric autobiographies, but his first-person voice permeates the poems. The first-person voice presents the dire physical condition of the Niger Delta with one unwavering vision…

It’S not always that you get a book, which keeps you reeling in laughter until the last page. Loud Whispers by Joseph Edgar is one of such. You won’t want to drop the book when you start reading it. Published by Bookvine, Lagos, with forward written by Bolanle Austen-Peters, founder of Terra Kulture, the book…

Noo Saro-Wiwa is the author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (2012).This book was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award...

Acclaimed author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...

A new book, The University-Media Complex As Nigeria’s Foremost Amusement Chain (The Stone Press, Lagos; 2018), written by Dr. Jimanze Ego-Alowes, has punctured Prof. Chinua Achebe’s 37 years old thesis that lack of good leadership is essentially the cause of Nigeria’s under-development.

The Nigerian Civil War, popularly known as the Nigeria-Biafra War, which lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970, is one of the most dominant issues in Nigerian literature. Different writers, especially retired soldiers, have in their memoirs, vilified or sensationalized events leading...

The allusion to waiting for ‘Godot’ suggests an endless and fruitless wait. In this case, the waiting will soon end, as a winner is sure to emerge at the appointed time.