Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the next poet destined to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lovers of intellection are thrilled that on Wednesday,…
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…
