When it was announced that this year’s Ake Arts and Book Festival (AABF) would be held in Lagos, two emotions gripped me: surprise and joy. Surprise, because well…why would anyone want to hold Ake Festival anywhere but in Abeokuta? On…
Bisi Adjapon’s ‘Of Women and Frogs’ gets Farafina nod
Of Women and Frogs, the debut novel by Bisi Adjapon will hit the bookshelves in December 2018 courtesy Farafina. Of Women and Frogs is the coming-of-age story of Esi, a feisty half-Nigerian girl growing up in post-colonial Ghana, with occasional…