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Here's Odia Ofeimun's dance drama A Feast of Return being performed at the Agip Hall of the MUSON Centre on Easter Sunday as part o...

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

Congo and Sudan: Lessons for Nigeria Mahmood Mamdani Columbia University [Text of talk delivered to the Nigeria Institute for International ...

Congratulations to Odia Ofeimun (who clocks 60 in March and for whom a Committee of Friends have organised the Mamdani Lecture, holding at...

After a week's workshop on poetry translations in Wales, Odia Ofeimun on other participating poets brought their poetry to the Purcell...

Lost Writers @ Late - featuring Delia Jarrett-Macaulay , Courttia Newland and Susan Yearwood at the Museum in Docklands, London. Thursday...

I am glad to know that a selection of my poems is being presented today in Mexico. I would very much have loved to be present. It would have...

How is this for a love of poetry? Football capacity crows in the open air at the Festival Internacional Poesía de Medellin , Columbia. You c...

“As a young man, Joseph is taunted by the cooler British-Caribbean kids for his accent and his humility. Ditching his Ghanaian heritage, Jos...

Chimamanda's Night of Glory By Molara Wood *published in This Day, 8 June 2007 As widely predicted, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adi...

BY DAMOLA AWOYOKUN “The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.” - ...