Ivorian writer, Veronique Tadjo, will be attending this year’s Ake Arts and Book Festival in Lagos as the headliner. Held virtually the last two editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival will be making a physical return in Ikoyi,…
Exciting concert, panels, book chats and more on day 2 of 2022 Ake Arts and Book Festival — Opeyemi Ajao
The 10th edition of the Ake Arts and Book Festival with the theme “Homecoming 2022” will begin in Lagos on Thursday, November 24. The venue for the literary event is at Strong Tower Events Centre, 40 Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi,…
Nobel Prize as mother of all controversies – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The Nobel Prize in Literature is Alfred Nobel’s dynamite gift of controversy that can blow up the world. British playwright and the 1926 Nobel Prize winner, George Bernard Shaw, said: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but…
Abdulrazak Gurnah emerges winner of 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist from Zanzibar has been announced winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding him the prize, the Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and…
