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Bookshelf • October 14, 2015 11:03

Marlon James becomes first Jamaican to win Man Booker Prize

Jamaican author Marlon James on Tuesday won the Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assa

Bookshelf • October 10, 2015 20:54

Can art still shock in the age of the extreme selfie?

Marina Abramović had a gun put to her head. Joseph Beuys shared a gallery with a coyote. But with the social media full of shocking images, is it wort

Bookshelf • October 10, 2015 20:54

Why 109 authors lost out of the NLNG Prize

Since inception, the NLNG Prize for Literature has had 10 winners with some being co-winners of the prize. In 2005, the award for the poetry category

Bookshelf • October 10, 2015 00:38

It feels good when text comes alive on stage – Asiyanbi

Bookshelf: Your play, ‘shattered,’ for which you won the BBC African Performance playwriting competition, is now taking place every Sunday

Bookshelf • October 9, 2015 23:33

The secret of Nigerian book sales

At almost every Nigerian literary event I have attended, the topic of the country’s lack of reading culture has come up. The falling standard of