When people looking to start reading African Literature ask us for recommendations we are always quick to scream “THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES”. Amarachi Agwu, a literary enthusiast, once described it as a candid approach to Infidelity. Now…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been featured in a new photography book that shines light on the most inspiring, active, and intelligent women in the world. Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday’s 200 Women: Who Will Change The Way You See The World contains…
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…
Ake Festival 2017 is almost here! Ake Festival is a five day programme of cultural immersion. 100 Novelists, poets, dancers, actors, illustrators, activists, musicians, artists and thinkers storm the historic city and share their work and their ideas. The fifth…
The 2017 T Greats issue, coming out on the 22nd of October, celebrates masters in their fields: an innovator of modern theater, an influential auteur, an author turned public intellectual, an artist redefining sculpture, a fashion designer with a painter’s eye, an actor who’s perfected the art of the subtle —…
Njideka Akunyili Crosby has been announced as one of the recipient’s of the 2017 MacArthur Fellowship–also called the Genius Grant alongside 23 others. Among those awarded the fellowship this year by the MacArthur Foundation are artists, writers, academics and scientists,…
In the spirit of throwback Thursday, we will be looking at the Programme from the memorial for CHINUA ACHEBE. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe was born on the 16th day of November 1930. He was a novelist, poet, professor, and critic. Things…
