Three Poetry Collections Reach the Final Stage THE race for the 2026 edition of The Nigeria Prize for Literature has entered its decisive stage, with three Nigerian poets emerging as finalists for the prestigious $100,000 award. James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need A Gun? and Tares Oburumu’s Flora’s Love […]
THE second edition of the Dr. Awele Ilusanmi Short Story Competition will open for entries on 1st September 2026. Organisers have fixed 20th December 2026 as the closing date. They will announce the winner and present the prize on 1st January 2027. The FAMBI Group sponsors the competition, while Authors’ Hub organises it. The initiative […]
United Nigeria Airlines Backs Chinua Achebe Prize With 10-Year, ₦20m Sponsorship THE Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, has secured a 10-year sponsorship commitment from United Nigeria Airlines to sustain the Chinua Achebe Prize for Fiction. Under the agreement, the airline will provide ₦2 million annually. The commitment will amount to ₦20 million over […]
When Publishing Became an Act of Cultural Survival NIGERIA has never lacked writers. The harder problem has always been getting their books into the hands of readers. For decades, the country’s literary reputation rested on writers whose works travelled far beyond Nigeria. But the publishing structures supporting that literary tradition gradually weakened. International publishing houses […]
A Novel That Refuses Easy Classification EVERY compelling heroic story begins with a longing. Sometimes that longing takes the form of a search for purpose. At other times, it becomes a journey into a world that exists beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience. Dexter Loko’s The Bako of Zereshé, published in 2026 by GrandTouch Press, […]
An Evening Where Literature Met the Camera FOR several hours on Saturday 15 August 2026, the University of Ibadan became the meeting point of literature, cinema, politics and scholarship as academics, writers, filmmakers and cultural enthusiasts gathered to celebrate one of Dr. Wale Okediran’s most enduring creative works. The occasion was a Film Screening and […]
A Salesman in America, a Horseman in Oyo AT first glance, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman appear to have almost nothing in common. One is set in post-war America and follows an ageing salesman struggling with professional failure. The other is rooted in Yoruba society under […]
When ANA Had to Pay: The Story Behind the 2025 Achebe Literature Prize THE recognition had already been secured. The winner had been announced. The literary honour had been conferred. But the money attached to the 2025 Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature was still missing. That left the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) with a […]
AT a time when smartphones, social media and short-form digital content increasingly compete for the attention of young people, the unveiling of four new books by scholar and author Dr. Christopher Amaechi Okobah in Abuja developed into a wider appeal for Nigeria to confront what many educators consider a growing crisis of reading. Okobah used […]
From Literary Celebration to an Authorship Crisis WHAT began as another celebration of storytelling across the Commonwealth has developed into a major debate about creativity, technology and the future of literary authorship. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize has postponed the opening of its 2027 edition following controversy over allegations that generative artificial intelligence may have […]