Wole Soyinka to headline CORA BookTrek
The Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) is co-hosting Professor Wole Soyinka to an afternoon of readings, conversations and signings around his latest published collection of verses. The book is titled: Selected Poems (1965-2022): A Retrospective, by Wole Soyinka. It is published by Bookcraft Africa. CORA’s sixth…
Quramo Publishing Announces Long list for Quramo Writer’s Prize 2021
Quramo Publishing Limited (Organisers of the Quramo Festival of Words, QFest) is pleased to announce the longlist of its annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP). The list of ten manuscripts was selected from a total of 351 entries. Quramo Publishing officially closed its portal for submissions…
WSICE 2020 Virtual Exhibition: Celebrating Wole Soyinka at 86
The WSICE 2020 Programme takes a new bearing this year due to the global COVID-19pandemic ravaging the world. Not disturbed by this distraction, however, the project is moving its vigor to a virtual space. This also goes for the Program Exhibition which will be held…
Call for Entries: 3rd Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Book Review 2017
In continuation of a legacy project that the Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, promoters of the annual Lagos Book & Art Festival , LABAF, launched in 2015, we hereby call for submission of entries in respect of the annual KEN SARO-WIWA PRIZE FOR BOOK REVIEW…
CORA Partners with Quramo Publishing for 7th Publishers Forum at LABAF 2016
Organised in partnership with Quramo Publishing Limited, our theme for this year’s forum is: Raising Standards: Rights, Distribution & Talent in the Publishing Industry. This year’s theme will focus on the challenges and aspects of raising standards in publishing in the areas of selling local…
LABAF2016: CORA Book Trek Hosts Molara Wood at Quintessence,Ikoyi
Plans are on the way for the biggest book fiesta in Nigeria; the Lagos Book & Arts Festival (Labaf) 2016 and as usual, heralding the festival is a Book Trek that features book reading by prominent, pro-literacy campaign Nigerians and notable authors who have made…
“Ake Festival is about arts and the representation of people whose work we push” Lola Shoneyin
The 2015 Ake Arts and Book Festivals (AABF) is a couple of days away and gradually, momentum has spiked in terms of publicity as the literary feast prepares to take the world by storm. At the press conference held at the White Space hotel, Journalists…
Ake Arts And Book Festival 2015 “Engaging the Fringe”
The third edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival will take place at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta, from 17-21 November, 2015. The theme is-Engaging the Fringe and Dialogue and will focus on the genres and creative endeavor that do not get the same…
WSICE 2015 Wraps up in Grand Style With “Kongi’s Harvest”
Arts lovers across the country and beyond converged Tuesday to watch Crown Troupe of Africa perform Soyinka’s ” Kongi Harvest” as part of wrap-up events of the Wole Soyinka International Culture Exchange(WSICE)2015, commemorating the icon’s 81st Birthday in Abeokuta. The audience saw the play in…