Okay, it’s been what we have been asking for since forever!! Finally, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) National have released a copy of the ogbonge constitution ratified at the last congress in Uyo. You can download it here or click here ANA Constitution 2012 Whichever you do, ensure you save a copy of the … Continue reading »
Read Edible Bones, and have a smooth ride, like a professional chauffeur cruising you around town in a limousine. Only that Kaitochuckwu has taken us on a turbulent wander across America, Unoma Azuah’s delivery is exquisite, done in simple language, and a free-flowing narrative that is, for me, reminiscent of the moment with Eddie Iroh’s … Continue reading »
Conversants: Ada AGADA[i] and Su’eddie Vershima Agema[ii] Contributors: Maik Ortserga[iii] and Samuel Okopi[iv] Ada AGADA: A famous European critic once correctly argued that both Achebe and Hardy are particular. While Achebe is a literary denizen of his Igbo environment, Hardy is domiciled in his Wessex (or Dorset) environment. Both wrote about village life. Both missed … Continue reading »
Conversants: Ada Agada and Su’eddie Vershima Agema Ada AGADA: I promised this piece on Su’eddie’s prodding. Let me start by saying I believe in the universality of art, in the structured unity of the human mind regardless of race and cultural plurality. I will define universality simply as the transformation of the particular by … Continue reading »
(Part 1) (Part 2-3) (PART FOUR) So we formed a federal nationhood in 1966 – or, to state it more correctly, it was rammed down our throats. As is the case with all beginnings, we had to name the new beast and give it an identity in the province of the symbolic. We had to … Continue reading »
See Part 1 (PART TWO) It is no secret that we love foreign things in Nigeria. Our encounter with modernity, especially the version of it associated with the material trajectory of Western Europe after the Enlightenment and the rise of the culture of late capitalism in the United States after the World Wars, has been … Continue reading »
Protocols!-My hosts, Pastor Tunde Bakare, esteemed convener of the SNG, and Mr. Yinka Odumakin, irrepressible spokesman of the group, must be used to thankless jobs by now. After all, they were both at the forefront of a recent epic struggle to restore constitutional order in this country by liberating a self-declared formerly shoeless compatriot from … Continue reading »
The floods came differently for several people around the world. In Nigeria, it was unusual as the country had never experienced something like this before. So, do you have reflections, thoughts, lessons on the floods? Do you have any poem or short story on the flood? Do send it in!! SEVHAGE calls for them! GUIDELINES: … Continue reading »
ANA Prose Fiction Prize 2012 Pride of the Spider Clan – Odili Ujubuonu – Winner Beyond the Yard – Inyang E. Ekwo A Time To Heal – Seye Oke ANA Poetry Prize 2012 Inside my Head – Umari Ayim – Winner Canvas – Saddiq Dzukogi Go Tell Our King – Betty Abah ANA … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Ikhide: By Professor Pius Adesanmi Winner, the Penguin Prize for African Writing Author of You’re Not a Country, Africa! Keynote lecture delivered at the National Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors Uyo, Akwa Ibom State November 9, 2012 Protocols! When I first received the theme of this conference in a somber email … Continue reading »
