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Bookshelf • January 18, 2020 06:22

5 Nigerian literary festivals to watch out for in 2020

There are a good number of literary and arts festivals taking place this year. Here, Bookshelf offers you a list of five.   Literary and arts fes

Bookshelf • January 18, 2020 06:20

Nigerian-Brit historian to make documentary on African literature

A Nigerian-British historian and filmmaker, David Olusoga, has said he is making a documentary on African literature for the BBC. Olusoga, who was awa

Bookshelf • January 18, 2020 06:15

America’s Hulu orders adaptation of Okorafor’s ‘Binti’

American network Hulu has handed out a script order for an adaptation of the three-part, African futuristic novella ‘Binti’ written by Nnedi Okorafor.

Bookshelf • January 18, 2020 06:14

Nigerian Students Poetry Prize calls for entries

Nigerian Students Poetry Prize (NSPP) has opened for submissions. Interested undergraduates are expected to submit a 30-line poem on any theme of thei

Bookshelf • January 11, 2020 04:03

‘How public service made me write about girl-child’

B.B. Suleiman is author of several books including Away in the Dark,’ ‘Answers to Questions You Are Yet to Ask Mum and Dad’, ‘The Hollow Godsend,’ and