The Google Doodle for today is dedicated to the GREAT CHINUA ACHEBE. Google created a google doodle marking what would have been Chinua Achebe’s 87th birthday. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe was born on the 16th day of November 1930. He was…
On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group – Boko Haram. Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never…
If you are a fan of what people have come to term “new-age” poetry then you must know Yrsa Daley-Ward. You should know her. Alongside the African-American poet Nayyirah Waheed, Zimbabwean bard Tapiwa Mugabe and Nigerian writer Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Yrsa Daley-Ward, who is of…
Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie wins Writer of the year at the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards 2017. Haper Bazaar celebrates inspirational people every year through their annual awards. Awards are given to women in different fields – writers to…
Dear Okechukwu, The first time we met, you were holding a copy of Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk This Path. You gushed about the book and told me how interesting it was. I just finished reading it and I want…
I absolutely enjoyed talking to Chimee Adioha. He has this sense of humour that is quite contagious and a very serious but funny way of tackling his questions. Chimee is one of the many young Nigerians making literature as cool…
How I Discovered Books; If I am to be honest with myself, all my life I’ve suffered from one form of depression or anxiety about being depressed or an extreme form of mania, I can’t say when it started but…
The Kreative Diadem is a platform for poets and writers to share their literary works. Kreative Diadem is committed to celebrating creativity in writers and poets who give their all day and night to add beauty to our world. The…
Suit: Mae Otti, Lagos (Dior event, Los Angeles) My mother always dressed us well. Me in little girl dresses cinched at the waist, my brothers in suits and well-ironed shirts. To go out, she said, we had to “di ka…
I fell in love at a very young age. It was a love that consumed me so much, a love that affected everything I would become. It was not the love of a person, it was the love for books….
