United Nigeria Airlines pledges N20m to fund Chinua Achebe Prize for Fiction for 10 years
United Nigeria Airlines has pledged N20 million to sponsor the annual Chinua Achebe Prize for Fiction, administered by the Association ...
Tag: African literature
Authors’ Hub to host panel discussion on future of African publishing July 25
ABUJA — Authors' Hub, a Nigerian writer' collective, has announced the 15th edition of its monthly panel discussion, with leading ...
In Memory of Lenrie Peters – a Surgeon of the Body, a Surgeon of the Word: Seventeenth Anniversary Tribute
Seventeen years ago, The Gambia lost one of its quiet giants. Not a man of slogans or spectacle, but a ...
ANA mourns demise of literary icon Kalu Uka at 88
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has mourned the passing of Emeritus Professor Kalu Uka, a towering figure in Nigerian ...
PAWA felicitates Chinweizu at 83
The Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) has greeted the renown Nigerian critic, essayist, poet, and journalist, Chinweizu Ibekwe, on the ...
Trauma, Violence, and the Poetics of Farewell in Jeff Iwu’s Cold Things
Jeff Iwu is a playwright and poet, and Cold Things is his debut novel, a work that boldly traverses the ...
Echoes of a Dying Do-Re-Mi Buzzing Through the Rhythm of Uche Chidozie’s Fading Solfeggio
Uche Chidozie Okorie's Fading Solfeggio is a 128-page poetry collection that laments like a muted cry in an era overwhelmed ...
Shehu Sani presents two books, stages play on migration crisis in Abuja on Thursday
A former Senator representing Kaduna Central Zone and renown activist, Malam Shehu Sani, will on Thursday, January 15, perform the ...
C3 Cultural Centre hosts Okediran at reading tour of his novel in Wales
Award-winning Nigerian author Wale Okediran was hosted to a reading of his new novel, Madagali, by the C3 Centre for ...
PAWA pays courtesy visit to celebrated novelist Ayi Kwei Armah in Senegal
A delegation of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) led by its President, Professor Bill Ndi, yesterday paid a visit ...