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Young Nigerian poets to submit work for Green Author Prize

Young Nigerian poets who have never published a full book and write in English have been called to submit entries of twenty poems for inclusion in the

Why I started literary show despite science background – Ngutsav

Bookshelf: Recently, you started a radio programme called ‘The Purple Silver Book Club’ on Liberty Radio, 91.7 Kaduna. What is it about? A

Three Nigerians make Joint shortlist of 2016 Writivism Prizes

Three Nigerians, Aito Osemegbe Joseph, Okwudili Nebeolisa and Gbenga Adesina, have made the joint shortlist for the 2016 Writivism prizes. Joseph, set

Rapper Pherowshuz Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic by Michael Eric Dyson & Sohail Daulatzai

Rapper, Pherowshuz, read Born to Use Mics, a biography of iconic American hip-hop rapper, Nas. “A friend got me the book on Nas’ Illmatic,

Chris Abani: ‘The middle-class view of Africa is a problem’

When a war is over, it takes another 10 years for a war to be really over,” the novelist and poet Chris Abani says over the phone. “And so