Afrocritik has announced the launch of its inaugural Afrocritik Prize for Criticism to celebrate its third anniversary. In recognition of Africa’s literary landscape which has grown...
Leading people is never an easy thing to do, and when it comes to religion, it gets a lot more complicated. The lives of clergymen are...
The Nigerian literary scene has been expansive lately, and it has particularly been accommodating of works which transcend cultures and shuttle different climes. Writers are no...
Each of us is born with dreams, aspirations, goals and concrete ideas of what we want our future to be. Sometimes, however, we get caught up...
More often than not, humans have dreams of how they want their lives to play out. They nurse ambitions and set plans in motion, but now...
Writing, and creative writing, in particular, is hardly ever done in isolation. More often than not, people write to make reference to history, explore imagination, or...
Literature, and Prose in particular, often comes to book enthusiasts in various dimensions. Novels sometimes play out as one long single story, and at other times...
Much is made about preconceived notions, socio-economic realities and ethno-religious assumptions. For many, it’s simply black and white; all southerners are Christians, and all Northerners are...
The art of fictional storytelling is absolute torture in itself, and when it culminates into a full-length novel, you cannot help but sympathise with the writer...
Coming of age is a very tricky thing in these parts, particularly when there is no fixed milestone to determine same. For some, it’s twenty-five. For...
At its best and warmest, Love is complicated, a maze, an intricate crossword puzzle. At its worst and frostiest, Love is torture, its chaos, it’s a...
When it comes to the books they read, the wants and desires of literary enthusiasts are volatile, ever changing, insatiable. Sometimes they want to be transported...
It’s funny how a significant number of African book-lovers immerse themselves into novels written by authors of other continents but sneer at African literature now and...
There is a general notion about “The African Story” and what a “well-written book from an African author” should contain. We are not unmindful of the...
The issue of marriage is a pretty delicate one, particularly in this corner of the globe, and especially where it concerns the woman. Society piles the...
The creative process is one that is complicated, intricate, and tricky in nature. It is enough torture when an individual decides to embark on churning out...
The beauty in books, particularly those of a literary variety, is that they present our eyes with a wide range of options. Sometimes, we want our...
Weddings are beautiful, and that goes without saying. From the tower-shaped cakes to the colourful decors, then the reception Jollof rice and the confetti which lays...
Now and then, readers find themselves going through varying tastes when it comes to African literature. We have seen the eyes of book enthusiasts tilting towards...
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