On February 6, Cassava Republic Press published Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide in Nigeria. Portraying “the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on your way to heaven or to hell,” Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide “moves between the sublime and the ridiculous, and deftly captures both the hilarity and the horror of Nigeria,” offering a sharply […]
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Elnathan John’s Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide Is the Satirical Commentary You Want to Read Ahead of Nigeria’s February Elections
Nigerian novelist Elnathan John’s forthcoming book is the satirical commentary you want to read ahead of Nigeria’s February 16 elections. Portraying “the different Nigerians you are likely to meet at home and abroad, on your way to heaven or to hell,” Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide “moves between the sublime and the ridiculous, and deftly captures both the […]
Elnathan John Among Judges for 2019 Man Booker International Prize
Nigerian novelist Elnathan John is among the judges for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. The panel includes writer, translator and president of English PEN Maureen Freely; philosopher Professor Angie Hobbs FRSA; essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra; and is chaired by award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. Sponsored by Man Group, sponsors of the more famous Man Booker Prize for Fiction, […]
Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin
Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, held from 26–28 April at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 3010178, Berlin, was themed “Writing in Migration” and was presented by the literary agency InterKontinental. It was sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Berlin’s Senate Department for […]
Olumide Popoola to Curate Star-Studded 2018 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Olumide Popoola, Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing, will be curating a star-studded 2018 festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, themed “Writing in Migration,” is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, and Ghana. For the first […]
The 5 Winners of the 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
The 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships have been awarded to five writers, four for fiction and one for nonfiction. While the scholarships are usually awarded to four writers—three for fiction, one for nonfiction—“the standard was so high and the competition so fierce that the judges couldn’t decide on the best four so we agreed to […]
The 21 Writers Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarships
The 2017 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship shortlist has been announced and there are 21 writers on it. The Miles Morland Writing Scholarships, an initiative of the Miles Morland Foundation, offer a fiction scholarship of £18,000 to two or three writers over the course of twelve months and a nonfiction scholarship of £27,000 to a single writer over […]
Easter 2017 Event: Afridiaspora Magazine Hosts Elnathan John in New York
Afridiaspora magazine will host Elnathan John for a reading on April 15 at Sister’s Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Centre, New York. The 5 PM event is organised by the magazine’s founder, Nana-Ama Kyerematen, and builds on the buzz generated by Elnathan’s 2015 debut novel Born on a Tuesday. Powered by blurbs from Taiye Selasi, Petina […]
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