Bookshelf

Bookshelf

Obioma’s novel makes 2019 Booker Prize shortlist

Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma has made the Booker Prize shortlist for his novel ‘An Orchestra of Minorities.’ The selection of six books out of a longlist

THE LAST GOOD BOOK I READ… Dami Ajayi (Poet) A Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma

Poet Dami Ajayi said his last good read is Emmanuel Iduma’s ‘A Stranger’s Pose.’ “Even though I read this book in manuscript, reading it in hard copy

2020 Commonwealth Prize open for submissions

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is now accepting submissions for its 2020 edition. This edition’s judging panel will be chaired by Ghanaian writer

Caine Prize withdraws Okafor’s story from 2019 shortlist

Nigerian writer Tochukwu Okafor’s ‘All Our Lives,’ shortlisted for this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing has been withdrawn. This was announced

Why my book focuses on the girl-child – Lois Chatta

Lois Chatta, 12, is author of a book titled ‘Homeless at Home.’ Here, the JSS 3 student of Flora Home International School talks about her writing pro