Literature

No one else is more aware and better qualified to redress this predicament confronting Africa’s culture than the former Federal Director of Culture, Mr. Frank Aig-Imoukhuede, who launched two books last week.

Coker, who founded the competition in 2013, said the motive was and remains to promote reading and writing culture among Nigerian students, as well as, build and train emerging writers and lovers of writing in the country.

The Girl Who Loves her City (Grandeur, Lagos, 2016) by a teenager, Aishat Ibrahim, who hails from Kebbi State, Nigeria, serves as a correctional tool for common mistakes teenagers make while growing up.

The possible link between this theme andthat of terrorismis strong. Terrorism, like torture, exploits the vulnerabilities of the body to make a political statement.

Although it was only five days before the commencement of the first semester examination at the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, two weeks ago, the Creative Writers’ Workshop, still held.

Death steals in the unkindest of moments. There were no signs whatsoever that Prince Osita Ike was on his way out. Aged 54, he had countless dreams ahead. I should know because we were more than friends.

I attempt to do three main things in this presentation. The first is to highlight what I refer to as the Nigerian tradition of writing, which I locate in the postulations of the hegemonic faction of the first generation of Nigerian writers.

The Calligraphy of God (Golean Books, U.S.; 2015) by Jenim Dibie is an inspiring poetry book for everyone going through various phases in life and encountering impediments.

Mrs. Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, passed away on Wednesday in her London home at the age of 72. Emecheta, born in Lagos on July 21, 1944, published more than 20 books throughout her career.

Definitions of Arts and humanities are appropriate in articulating this lecture to the desired goal of initiating peace in the 21st century.

Festival Poetry Calabar 2016, which held during the Calabar Christmas Carnival, fulfilled the intention of its initiators and organisers - Poets in Nigeria (PIN) and Festival Poetry Foundation respectively.

It is acutely annoying and unacceptable to my temperament that in the bid to earn the coveted PhD, some ambitious students are made to stretch from three years onto eternity the task of writing a so-called dissertation....