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Biyi Bandele tours Nigeria with his WWII novel Burma Boy , published in a West African edition by Kachifo . He's in Lagos on 5th April...

Biyi Bandele... the long and the short of it Seeing a shaven headed Biyi Bandele at Wasafiri’s reading event of 22 November wasn’t all that...

The new edition of Wasafiri dropped in the post a couple of days ago and, though I am yet to read much of it, I can already tell this is go...

At the reading of his new novel Burma Boy on 21 June , Biyi Bandele disclosed that he was flying to Lagos in a number of days, to write a pi...

Biyi Bandele read from his new novel, Burma Boy @ the Lewisham Library, London - on publication day, 21 June. The author later discussed t...

In Ali, I tried to capture the innocence of the African soldiers, set apart from an ideology that forced them to fight a war about which the...

From Giles Foden's review of Biyi Bandele's new novel, Burma Boy... Another pleasure is the sheer exuberance of Banana's own r...

Segun Afolabi's first novel, Goodbye Lucille , is now out in the UK by Jonathan Cape. The novel was reviewed by fellow Nigerian Biyi Ban...