Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Writers are diamonds says Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Hajiya Balaraba Ramat Yakubu is a pioneer Hausa novelist and film maker. Her 1988 debut novel, Alhaki Kuykuyo was translated into English and publishe

Tomi Adeyemi: ‘We need a black girl fantasy book every month’

Author of Children of Blood and Bone says her debut novel was a response to genre fiction in which the characters were always white It has been called

Notes from Nigeria

From ‘illicit’ sex to identity politics, the themes addressed by new Nigerian fiction coming into the Indian market are pushing the bounda

Book: The Many Colours of a Rainbow

Biography of Senator Ahmadu Ali Reviewer: Mahmud Jega    When I was invited to review this biography of Senator Ahmadu Ali, I expected the i

The Man Booker International Prize 2018 Longlist Announced

The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2018 prize, which celebrates the