By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE THE Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) brought its 44th International Convention to a stirring close on 1 November 2025, with a glittering awards dinner celebrating the nation’s finest writers. The ceremony, held at the Chinua Achebe International Conference Center, Mamman Vatsa Writers’ Village, Abuja, marked the announcement of the winners of the […]
By ANITA KNIGHT FORMER U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that she will share the stage with renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the 2025 London Literature Festival. The event, scheduled for Thursday 23 October, forms part of Harris’s “107 Days” international book tour. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Harris […]
THE Creative Writers’ Association of Nigeria (CWAN) proudly unveils its groundbreaking literary initiative, the CWAN Writers Series. This visionary project is designed to serve as a bridge between hidden talent and global recognition; a platform where dreams, creativity, and determination converge to give rise to literary greatness. The CWAN Writers Series is not just another […]
IN a landmark recognition of one of Africa’s most influential poetic voices, the Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) has announced a forthcoming special issue titled “The People’s Word, The World’s Poetics: Niyi Osundare and the Rearticulation of Second-Generation African Poetry.” Co-edited by Olabode Ibironke and Tosin Gbogi, the issue revisits the revolutionary literary, […]
By FATIMA HUSSAINI ON the evening of 24 May 1963, inside a modest apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a confrontation unfolded that would quietly alter the course of America’s civil rights struggle. It was supposed to be a polite meeting — a “frank conversation” between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a group of […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE ERNEST Hemingway lived as if life itself were a battlefield. From the trenches of World War I to the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, he sought danger the way others sought peace. He hunted lions in Africa, wrestled marlins off the coast of Cuba, and wrote with […]
By TIMOTHY HAGGERTY-NWOKOLO WHEN Czech writer Ivan Klíma died at 94, the world lost not just a novelist but a symbol of moral courage. A survivor of the Nazi camps and the Soviet clampdown that followed the Prague Spring, Klíma remained in Czechoslovakia even when banned from publishing for two decades. Sweeping streets by day, […]
By HAUWA MAGANA WHEN the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize for Literature announced SANYA by Oyin Olugbile as its 2025 winner, it did more than honour a novel — it celebrated a voice that has given new meaning to silence, womanhood, and memory in African fiction. The $100,000 award — Africa’s most prestigious literary […]
A POEM BY WARSAN SHIRE no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind […]
By ANDERSON (ANDY) CLIFF THE 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Born in 1954 in Gyula, a small town in southeast Hungary near the Romanian border, Krasznahorkai is widely celebrated […]