Bookshelf

Bookshelf

ANA should do more to promote Nigeria’s book industry – Yakoob

Habib Yakoob is the author of ‘The Oath,’ a novel under the Nigerian Writers Series. In 2014, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) pu

12 things you probably didn’t know about ‘Animal Farm’

A staple of the high school curriculum since the 1950s, George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ was perhaps the first time most of us were int

Poetry led me to short story writing – Ogbere

Louis Ogbere is one of two Nigerians recently long-listed for the 2015 Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) Prize. He has published several short stories, in

THE LAST GOOD BOOK I READ…Publisher, Isang Awah: What Sunny Saw in the Flames by Nnedi Okorafor

In a bid to enjoy something different, Isang Awah decided to read Okorafor’s fantasy novel ‘What Sunny Saw in the Flames’ and came f

Where prizes take Nigerian literature

Uche Peter Umez is a poet and short story writer who has won awards in poetry, short stories and children novel writing. He is the author of ‘Da