Ozi Okoli Celebrates Milestone With Politically Charged Drama RENOWNED Nigerian broadcaster and playwright Ozi Okoli will commemorate his 50th birthday with a command performance and book launch of his new stage play, Restless Night, a dark satirical work examining insecurity, institutional collapse and social survival in Nigeria. The event will hold on 13th June 2026 […]
A planned screen adaptation of Bukar Usman’s Hausa folktales is drawing attention to the wider disconnect between Nollywood and Nigeria’s literary heritage. Renewed Push to Connect Nollywood With Nigerian Literature THE planned adaptation of Hausa folklorist Dr. Bukar Usman’s celebrated “Tatsuniyoyi” collections into film format has sparked renewed debate over the limited relationship between Nigerian […]
Noirledge Unveils Gbadamosi’s Third Poetry Collection NOIRLEDGE Publishing has announced the release of Entropy, the third poetry collection by Nigerian poet and publisher Servio Gbadamosi. The new work deepens Gbadamosi’s literary exploration of memory, grief, spirituality, and the shifting tensions of contemporary existence, positioning him among a growing generation of African writers interrogating both personal […]
Revisiting a Painful Chapter of History IN The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate delivers a poignant exploration of loss, identity, and the long shadows of slavery in American history. Drawing inspiration from real “Lost Friends” advertisements, the novel reconstructs the emotional reality of families separated during slavery and their desperate attempts to reconnect. The […]
Navigating Structure in Writing: Benjamin Hale on Fiction and Nonfiction BENJAMIN Hale, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and The Fat Artist and Other Stories, recently offered insights into his creative process, highlighting the contrasting approaches he employs when writing fiction versus nonfiction. Speaking in a reflective essay published by Literary Hub, Hale […]
Nigerian Novelist Takes Conflict Narrative to Global Audience RENOWNED Nigerian medical doctor and novelist, Dr. Wale Okediran, is set to take his acclaimed novel Madagali to the United Kingdom this winter as part of a London book tour celebrating African storytelling and resilience in the face of conflict. The tour will feature public readings, moderated […]
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, […]