If there is only one generously-funded literary prize in a country of 200 million people…it is because – difficulties of the Nigerian operating environment aside – there is no real market for what Nigerian writers are writing.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIAN LITERATURE: A TREATISE BY HILLARY UGO UZOMBA
What is the problem? We need solutions. But I figured a popular problem is that there are fewer books by Africans (Nigerians in view) to take our experiences to the...
9 MUST-FOLLOW NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS FOR NIGERIAN WRITERS & READERS
A new year is here. 2019 has arrived as a blank book and a pen in your hands for you to write whatever you please. While you decide what to...
MYSTERIES IN WRITING: DARE TO BE DIFFERENT WITH A DIFFERENCE
Sometimes you don't even know how to explain what you have written. You look at yourself after reading what you have written and ask yourself if truly you were the...
ICHABOD: OF GODS, WANNABES AND THE EVANESCENT GLORY OF NIGERIAN POETRY by Soonest Nathaniel Scholes
In a passionate bid to promote the seriousness and importance of poetry, Joseph Brodsky in his opening remark as U. S. Poet Laureate, opined that what distinguishes humans from the...