Evelyn Osagie was a vibrant, upwardly mobile journalist whose passion for storytelling, advocacy, and the arts left an indelible mark on Nigeria’s media and cultural landscape. With a perceptive mind …
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Writer, culture advocate, Bunmi Oyinsan, on stage with ‘Ladder of Bones’ at JRandle Centre, Lagos, Aug 17
Join us at the J. Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture & History on Sunday August 17 at 5 pm for an engaging conversation themed ẸNÍLỌLÓBỌ̀, inspired by my new novel …
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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
Ngũgĩ worked throughout his life to promote the decolonisation of language, writing and publishing his books in Kikuyu and only later translating them himself into English By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o with introduction …
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How Okwui Enwezor made the Art world bigger
by ArtNet Newsby ArtNet NewsThe many pieces in the two volumes also trace the way Enwezor expanded the canon alongside larger trends of the times, especially the globalization of the art world and the …
TALF 2025 invites literature lovers to explore ancestral memory and resistance, and the futures that African and diasporic writers are imagining and building. How do stories survive, travel, and transform …
‘Let’s not re-Villagise the Nigerian debate by relaunching the dichotomy between foreign and home-based Nigerian writers’ (Text of CORA Statement at the Book Party for The Laureates of the Nigeria …
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The Nigeria Prize for Literature is not an Arts Council, says university don
by The ArtHubby The ArtHubAt its core, The Nigeria Prize for Literature is simply that: a prize, and nothing more…. What it aims to do is to award writers and provide them with an …
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Literature as Revolution: When young minds confront power and patriarchy through Ngũgĩ’s Devil on the Cross
This fourth and last session of the #CORALiterarySeason 2.0 successfully bridged theory and practice, text and performance, and scholarship and activism. Ngugi’s radical vision found resonance in the voices of …
We are a force to be reckoned with on the continent and beyond. And it’s “forward ever and backwards never”, for Nigerian Literature is the Literature of the future globally. …
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Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025… Longlist of 11 unveiled
by The ArtHubby The ArtHubTwo past winners, Unigwe and Adam, return as Masobe Books leads with four slots By Editor WRITERS and cultural workers across Nigeria and the diaspora have begun salivating as the …