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'Rhyme and punishment' - is what The Observer calls it , as Derek Walcott gives VS Naipaul a taste of his own medicine in verse. Bef...

Here's a blog you should be checking out over the next few weeks. And thanks to Catwalq for drawing my attention to this web project, a...

Here we are clawing a small literary event out of Nnorom Azuonye's son's birthday party, yesterday in London. L-R: James Henshaw (s...

" Chinua Achebe ... is the dignified elder statesman of African letters. Long considered a favourite for the Nobel Prize in Literatur...

Niyi Osundare and Malawian poet Jack Mapanje in Leeds in 12 May. Mapanje revealed for the first time his role in the 1986 Commonwealth Po...

This postage stamp arrived with a recent mail from Lagos and was my first sighting of the much talked about series of stamps honouring Niger...

Reading the 'Letters to the Editor' section of the free Metro newspaper on the morning of June 3, 2003, a letter about the British p...

I read Flora Nwapa's books Efuru and Idu as a child and I was fascinated by her descriptions of a blue lake. Last year, I visited rel...

The Index Bookshop in Brixton was one of those places that existed as a reassurance to lovers of Black (African, Caribbean and African-Ameri...

Writers honour late ANA judge, Lynn Chukura By Uduma Kalu http GRADUALLY, and unexpectedly, a white body of a woman washed ashore. The crowd...

The death is announced (and noted on page 78 of today's Guardian, Lagos) of Lynn Chukura - the end coming at it did in the sea in Ghana...

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...