‘I didn’t set out to be a whistle-blower with my novel’
Lola Akande is the author of two novels, ‘In Our Place’ and her most recent, ‘What it Takes,’ which tells the story of Funto a
Art and Ideas
Art and Ideas
‘What moved me to write about the almajiri’
How long did it take you to write your book, My Life as an Almajiri? The first draft of the book took one week to write, it was in early 2014. I
Colm Tóibín: James Joyce’s ‘Portrait of the Artist,’ 100 years on
James Joyce’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ begins with the confidence, ease and innocence of a story told to a child an
Politics, power and the commonwealth: A review of Paul Ugbede’s ‘Mr. Chairman Sir!’
Paul Ugbede’s Mr. Chairman Sir, couched in the epic theatrical form interrogates the place of politics and power in human relation and the distr
Five Books for the Yuletide Season
Happy Christmas to all our readers. It has been an incredible year. There have been ups, and there have been downs. We are lucky the Lord has ke