Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Why I wrote ‘The Weight of Silence’ in questions – Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

NLNG 2016 literary award winner, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, has said that he wrote his new short story ‘The weight of silence’ in questions be

Icarus Rising: Of a nation’s dystopia and a poet’s rhetoric

Book Title: Icarus Rising  Author: Emman Usman Shehu Publisher: Topaz Publishing House (Topaz Books) Pages: 94 Year: 2017 Reviewer: Paul Liam Emm

Why I created story about woven babies – Arimah

Bookshelf: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing and winning the O. Henry Prize earlier in the year. How did yo

An author’s ‘Asaba’ drama

Title: Asaba: The Dance of the Dead Author: Ugo Chukwuedo Pages: 30 Reviewer: Nathaniel Bivan I have read a number of books about the Nigerian civil w

Literary foundation seeks submissions

Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation seek submissions to their 2017 Gerald Kraak Award exploring these that deal with topics of gender,