Two Nigerians and a South African writer have been shortlisted for the 2018 9mobile Prize for Literature. The three shortlisted titles are Stay with Me by Nigeria’s Ayobami Adebayo, What it Means When a Man Falls Down From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah...

2017 Future Awards Arts and Culture winner, Ayobami Adebayo, has been nominated for a British Literary Award for her debut novel, Stay With Me. She has been nominated alongside 11 others for the Wellcome Book Prize. Adebayo is the only African competing for the £30,000 (N15,082,200) award. To read her interview with us, click here. As…

In the last few years, perhaps more than ever, Nigerian youths have become a creative force so potent that their impacts on the society cannot be ignored. Young people have been building legacies in sectors such as agriculture, literature, music, media, commerce, fashion, arts and many others. To honour this growing band of outstanding individuals,…

The jury of 2018 edition of 9mobile Prize for Literature has released a longlist of nine books from an array of authors from across the continent, who entered for the prize, by 9mobile.

By the time we come to the end of ‘Stay With Me’, shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the reader is spent, having been taken through the mill by the protagonist’s seemingly endless travails. We have run such a gamut of emotions....

Goethe Institut’s second Literary Crossroad for the year, women still reigned as two female writers, Yewande Omotosho and Ayobami Adebayo, read extensively from their most recent works as they joined Molara Wood in a conversation.

Two writers, who just burst onto the country’s literary scene with their exciting works, Odafe Atogun (Taduno’s Song) and Ayobami Adebayo (Stay With Me), which is shortlisted for the 2017 Bailey’s Prize for Literature, have challenged Nigerian publishers.....