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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/08/14

I Started Reading and Just Stopped Halfway and Thought—This is Really Bad | What Achebe, Soyinka, Adichie, Forna, Teju Cole and Serpell Thought About VS Naipaul

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VS Naipaul, Nobel Prize and Booker Prize-winning novelist and nonfiction writer, passed on days ago at 85 years of age. As is the norm, countless think pieces have appeared on his life. While Naipaul’s genius talent and his standing as a literary great aren’t in doubt, it is his legacy that stutters. Born in Trinidad […]

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Features, Lit Scene 2018/08/01

Wole Soyinka’s Former Residence at Obafemi Awolowo University Becomes a Museum

You know you’ve arrived when a place where you once lived is turned into a museum. That’s exactly what has happened to Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka. A house where he lived in Ife during his time as a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University was recently made into a museum. In 1963, Wole Soyinka […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/06/18

Mo Abudu Announces Film Adaptation of Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman

Nollywood personality Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Television, has announced a film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. She broke the news on her Instagram page, @moabudu, with a photo of herself and Soyinka having lunch at Scotts in London. Premium Times‘ report quotes her as posting the following: “Work and planning continue with EbonyLife Films […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/10/27

55 Years After Makerere Conference, University of London’s SOAS to Host Memorial Gathering

Fifty-five years after the founding fathers of modern African literature gathered in Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda to try and define what “African Literature” should be, the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) will be hosting a conference to mark that seminal moment. The 1962 Makerere Conference, titled “Conference of African Writers […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/10/13

Writing Black Canadas | Transition’s Issue 124 Has Wole Soyinka, Profiles Toni Morrison

Transition magazine has announced its Issue 124. Titled “Writing Black Canadas,” the issue marks the Canadian confederation’s 150th anniversary and celebrates over four hundred years of Black presence in Canada. It contains a profile of Toni Morrison by Sarah Ladipo Manyika and a tribute to F. Abiola Irele by Wole Soyinka. In issue 124, “Writing Black Canadas,” […]

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Features, Lit Scene 2017/08/07

A Friend, a Mentor, a Confidante | Read Professor Ato Quayson’s Tribute to the Late Literary Scholar Abiola Irele

Nigerian literary scholar Abiola Irele passed away last month. He was 81 years old when he died and had led a life dedicated to the study of African literature. The flood of condolence messages and tributes on social media is a testament to the man’s greatness as scholar, a colleague and a mentor. Wole Soyinka, […]

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Features, Lit Scene 2017/07/31

Wole Soyinka Has a Lot to Say on Biafra in His Recent Essay

  Soyinka’s recent essay, titled “War In Nigeria: Victory Remains Elusive, 50 Years On,” contains a lot of helpful insights on the Biafra question. Nigeria’s civil war of the late 1960s was re-introduced into the global imagination with the publication Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. Chinua Achebe’s last book before his passing also […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/07/26

Wole Soyinka’s Poem for the Late Literary Scholar Abiola Irele

Professor Abiola Irele passed on earlier this month at the age of 81. Born in 1936, the late critic was one of the finest and most respected African literary scholars. Graduating from the University of Ibadan in 1960, he got a PhD in French from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He eventually joined Harvard as […]

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Features 2018/08/20

Read an Excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s New Novel, This Mournable Body

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Earlier this month, we brought news of the publication of This Mournable Body, the final novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy […]

Features 2018/08/20

Teju Cole’s Response to His Work Being Loved by Philip Roth and V.S. Naipaul Should Motivate All Writers

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Teju Cole is a Great Essayist. We know. The essayist-novelist-photographer-art critic was recently in Lagos, we reported last month, for […]

Features 2018/08/20

Ama Ata Aidoo, Haruna Ayesha Attah Among Guests for 2018 Accra International Book Festival

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The 2018 Accra International Book Festival will be held from 6-9 September, to coincide with the International Literacy Day on September 8. The […]

Features 2018/08/18

#SSDA2018 | Review of Michael Yee’s God’s Skin | Moso Victor Sematlane

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We announced that we would begin publishing reviews of the top three stories from the Short Story Day Africa Prize. The stories, […]

Features 2018/08/18

Ahmed Ismail Yusuf’s Story Collection, The Lion’s Binding Oath, Shows Somalis Living and Loving in a Time of War

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Earlier this week, we brought news of Reneilwe Malatji’s short story collection Love Interrupted, published by Catalyst Press. But it […]

Features 2018/08/17

Why E.C. Osondu Got an Invitation to Meet V.S. Naipaul but Didn’t

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Following V.S. Naipaul’s passing, Nigerian writer and Caine Prize 2009 winner E.C. Osondu has paid him tribute on Facebook. Osondu made […]

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