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About Me
- Wordsbody
- I am a writer and arts journalist now based in Lagos. This is a blog on arts and culture. The focus is on Nigeria's art scene, especially her 'Word's Body' - the writers. As and when, we'll also touch on wider African writing, as well as international literature. In short, a saturation of the arts.
My Blog List
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Keynote Lecture at AAH Annual Conference, University of Cambridge - So, on April 10, 2026, I made a quick one-day trip to the University of Cambridge to give a Keynote Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Association...
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Championing literary translation in Nigeria - Yesterday, I read an excellent article by Carl Terver on “The Middleclass Problem of Nigerian Writing.” He writes about the inaccessibility of contemporary...1 month ago
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Spring Update - The Dream Hotel had a dream launch, much to my relief and delight. It received excellent reviews, including in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the B...1 year ago
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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen? - Oliver Kim - Why did the Industrial Revolution happen? Why, for the past two centuries, have hundreds of millions of people moved off the farm and into factories? St...1 year ago
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Ronasi Fiction Prize for Mototi Ward Primary Schools (Zimbabwe) - The Ronald Sigauke Memorial Fiction Prize, in collaboration with Chisiya Writers’ Workshop in Mazvihwa, Zimbabwe, announces the first edition of the RONAS...2 years ago
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Jump Up! - I have a picture of the wedding dance. This island man, young and handsome, with epaulettes, leads me, in my white gown and silk slippers, around the pavil...5 years ago
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Before You Send Out Your Manuscript - Dear Writer, Writing is an act of self-exploration and submitting your work to a publisher can be the scariest act of your life. As publishers, we are awar...
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Fresh fields... - I have decided to stop blogging - not that that changes much - the world of the blogosphere is pretty dead, no one is really bothering any more, it takes t...7 years ago
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Short Commentary on The End of Days, Far From My Father, and Maid in SA - I’m not quite feeling my current format of titling these grouped review posts. The previous one is “Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika“. O...
7 years ago
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One of my favourite things to do is to take pictures of the sea....cool pics!
Thanks Waffarian. River Gambia is one of those rivers that behave like the sea. Tidal, wonderful ecosystem. I love rivers, and this one was as great as they come.
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