Literature

Edited by Sunny Awhefeada, Enajite Ojaruega and Peter Omoko, Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G. G. Darah is a 503-paged festschrift published by the Lagos-based Malthouse in 2018, to celebrate the robust personality of the internationally acclaimed Professor of Oral Literature and Folklore, Godini Gabriel Darah, who clocked seventy (70) in November, 2017.…

OVH Energy, leading downstream oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of its creative writing competition in commemoration of the World Creativity and Innovation week which took place from April 15-21, 2018. This competition is the 2nd edition of the company’s Prodigy series titled “So You Think You Can Write”. The Prodigy Series is…

African Movies Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) recipient Trino Studios is set to make a debut with its first feature film Sylvia, a tale of love, lust, betrayal and obsession.

Quramo Publishing Limited is calling for entries for the Quramo Writer’s Prize (QWP). This year’s call is for the submissions of manuscripts between 15, 000 and 20, 000 words.

It is only natural that you think your body is yours to do with as you wish. Dear Nigerian woman, it is not. Your body belongs to everybody else.” With these words...

The events leading to the Nigerian Civil War and the war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970, in spite of its tragic consequences were propitious for Nigerian literature in many ways. They altered the hitherto private sensibility of the Nigerian poet and pulled him into the national fray defined by political crises.

Although his media handlers have vigorously protested that President Muhammadu Buhari did not categorically use the term ‘lazy’ to describe Nigerian youth, yet the import of his comment has continued to rub on the youth the wrong way. Certainly not ‘lazy’ by any means, the maligned country’s youth have shown that they could lift a…

Kabiru Abdullahi’s The Golden Girl of Galma captures a moral defect in the society amongst young ladies, who set certain parameters as qualifications for the kind of men they want to marry despite not possessing the same standards themselves. Abdullahi portrays these vices in the life of the major character Atine, a young, beautiful princess,…

The title of this book gave me the impression that it is a book about torment and pain. And I thought it was, until I read the first two chapters, then I realised it was not about pain; this book is about strength and perseverance. These are the words that kept running through in my…

Nigerian literature remains a significant site in contesting and negotiating what constitutes the Nigerian experience. An experience that has been so complex and baffling...

Barely a year after her first novel, What It Takes, was released, University of Lagos don, Dr. Lola Akande of Department of English, has launched her latest work entitled...

Parents and adults have been urged to support young people in their quest to find a footing in life and not inhibit their progress. Also, young people’s quest...