2019 African Writers Award Longlist
With the support of the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT), in the course of the last seven weeks, the panel of judges have worked hard on all…
Literature
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Purple Hibiscus, We Should all be Feminists, The Thing Around Your Neck And Three Other Chimamanda’s Books Now Available On OkadaBooks
OkadaBooks now houses six books of Chimamanda Adichie at very cheap prizes. – Purple Hibiscus – Half of a Yellow Sun – Americanah – The…
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Book Review: A Review Of ‘In My Father’s House’ by Mosobalaje M Abimbola
If pictures could tell the stories behind them, how would the world look at the Ones in them?
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FWGE Day 3: When Age Comes by Fidelis Okafor
When age comes, we would sit by a fountain, waving our shadow to the sunset and be children again. His laughter would vibrate his potbelly,…
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Poetry: Oh Nigeria by Ugwu Erochukwu Shedrach
She tortured the words of our mouth, And made our heart conjealed to itself, Like an abandoned cement mixture. Nigeria, the land of our heroes…
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Time, Poem by Mc Emmanuel Zohn
TIME Time drops in decay like a candle that burns out. Time runs; quickly like a flash, it is gone, and before you know it,…
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Poetry: For What Shall I Say? by Ridwan Adedeji Olanrewaju
For What Shall I Say? They came in millions of programming Programming that gave our blabbering tongues words to say Our stammering tongues coals to…
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A Contrastive Analysis of Ayoola’s “spirits I” and Ayinla’s “How men die I” by Ola MacWayh, M.A.
Poetry is a spiritual endeavor, in that a poet is thrown into a passage. Of flight — into a peaceful vastness — unprecedented transitions— consequently,…
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New Book Alert: Ayodele Abdulwasiu Ishola Publishes 361 Degrees (Collection of Poems)
This collection is a bold statement on the human experience. The poet makes a conscious effort to explore individualism, universalism, spiritism, and a critique of…
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Poetry: A woman’s Touch by Jessie Sarang
A woman’s touch The touch of a woman is like a dazzling starlight; alluring to behold and delicate to gaze upon on a clear night….