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The literary world has been abuzz over news that novelist Chinua Achebe forced rapper 50 Cent to change the title of his new movie, Things...

Akin Omotoso's 2008 documentary film, Soyinka, Child of the Forest , once shown on DSTV as part of the Great Africans Series, is showing...

The literary event of the last week has to be not so much the op-ed piece written by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani for the New York Times, but the ...

Scholar Tejumola Laniyan (right) presents the 2010 Fonlon-Nichols Award to poet Odia Ofeimun earlier today in Lagos. Ofeimun had been due...

News Release Africa Beyond presents Word from Africa A celebration of African literature and languages In collaboration with SABLE LitMag S...

You've never had it so good, all you lovers of African writing. What were the chances of 2 heavyweight websites serving up addictive dos...

I'm sorry, I don't feel able to blog the usual stuff today. I've been thinking about Darfur in Southern Sudan. I'm reminded ...

“Do you remember? How quickly the memories are slipping away. What do you want? To chant? Or just call out? To whom? For what? There’s a voi...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o at the book reading of Wizard of the Crow on 10th August. The author considers England his second home, and was onc...