I love that home-away-from-home treat, or simply give me a hotel room with the whole works. Now that’s, maybe, close to what a residency programme can...
Here, there’s Art History and there’s poetry, all wrapped in a culture entirely of the author’s creation. Nathaniel Bivan My first major encounter with Umar Abubakar...
I spotted the cover in a bookstore and, I instantly knew I had to read it. If you want to see the Russia-Ukraine war in a...
There’s a lot to cry about, and so much to scream out in frustration in Nigeria, and across the world. But there’s a bucket list of...
When a pen can make you get high grades at school, why study? By Nathaniel Bivan In March 2022, Uzoma Ihejirika, a writer, concluded a three-month...
In a collection that transcends poetry, our writer discovers it is music, interrupted by rhymes and rhythm. By Nathaniel Bivan I met EB through his words...
Wouldn’t you just love to be the winner of The Booker Prize or the Nigerian Prize for Literature? It starts with “not giving up!” By Nathaniel...
Many believe that the lines between prose fiction writers and poets are sometimes blurred with time. But how true is this? By Nathaniel Bivan I have...
Imagine a Hausa translation of some of today’s contemporary novels set in Nigeria’s north. And then even more exciting, Hausa literature in English. Wouldn’t it be...
From ‘Lucidity of Absurdity’ to ‘Akimbo in Limbo’, Olumide Olaniyan looks at social issues and the world of politics with what may best be described as...
