Afro Young Adult Anthology releases at Ake Arts and Book Festival 2019
The Goethe-Institut is proud to present the release of the long-awaited Afro Young Adult anthology, titled “Water Birds on the Lake Shore: An Anthology of African Young-Adult Fiction”. Afro Young Adult was launched in October 2018, aiming at producing more African literature for Young Adults,…
LABAF Festival 2019 set to Honour Wole Soyinka, Tunji Oyelana, Theo Lawson and Others
The Committee for Relevant Art, CORA directorate is pleased to announce her “Arthouse Honourees” for the 2019 Lagos Book & Art Festival, LABAF scheduled to take place from 4-10 November 2019 at the Freedom Park, Lagos. It is the 21st edition of the week-long annual…
Wole Soyinka becomes ‘Honourary Citizen’ of Cap Haitian
……Decorated with ‘Order of Honour and Merit of the Commander’s Rank’ by President Moise …Given Official ‘Key’ to Cap Haitien Yesterday, in Haiti, the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was officially decorated as a ‘Honourable Citizen’ of Cap Haitien, capital of the northern region of the…
PHOTOS: Wole Soyinka Receives Haitian State’s Medal of Honour
Busy day in Port au Prince as the Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, is given State reception by the Haitian Government, led by President Monsieur Jovenel MOISE, at the State House yesterday. The first lady of Haiti, and eight cabinet ministers as well as many senior…
Saraba Magazine set to launch its First Print Issue
“Transitions,” our first print issue, will be released October 2, 2017. We have gathered writings,reportage, short stories, travel essays, poems—befitting of our foray into print. Our contributors are writers you should be reading, and visual artists whose images are compelling. The cover is designed by Ojima…
A Platter of Gold: ‘We can divide ourselves but not our history’ – Olasupo Shasore
“One of the things we share in common is our history; we can divide ourselves but not our history” Every year, Nigeria pays tribute to its fallen soldiers on January 15, armed forces remembrance day which coincidentally is the same day as the first military…
“Our obsession with the Nobel Prize diminishes us’’ – Okey Ndibe
At a book chat session on Saturday, 19 November, the writer Okey Ndibe said, ‘Our obsession with the Nobel Prize (for literature) diminishes us (Africans)’’. The book session had Kola Tubosun as the moderator, and Congolese novelist, Alain Mabanckou, as the other member of the…
Ngugi waThiong’o and Kunle Ajibade recount prison experiences at Ake
To many it was a delightful surprise when it was announced that foremost literary giant, Ngugi wa Thiongo, will headline the 2016 Ake Arts and Book Festival. Books like Weep Not Child, have been a staple of secondary school education that for many attendees at…
Brymo, Falana, and Adunni Nefretiti Kick-off Ake with Mercurial Performances
Ake festival kicked off yesterday with a bang. For most of the festival initiates ASIRI interviewed, all their preliminary expectations have been met. How can it not? When the virtuosity of Brymo’s singing brought the metaphorical roof of Hubert Ogunde’s hall down. But Brymo was…
Lagos Book and Art Festival 2017 get’s Theme and Date
At the end of a four-day fun-filled “fiesta of Ideas and Life”, the 18th edition of the Lagos Book & art Festival, LABAF adjourned to next year, which would be its 19th edition and focusing on the theme: ERUPTIONS: Global FRACTURES & Collective Humanism”. The…