Africa – Su'eddie in Life n' Literature

2013/08/092013/08/09

BIKO AND THE TOUGH ALCHEMY OF AFRICA – BEN OKRI

(Full Transcribed version of the 13th Steve Biko Memorial lecture delivered by Ben Okri on September 12th, 2012) Molweni! Vice-Chancellor, Max Price, Mr Nkosinathi Biko, members of the extraordinary Biko family, members of the Board of Trustees, the Minister of National Planning, Deputy-Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, distinguished guests, comrades, ladies and gentlemen – … Continue reading BIKO AND THE TOUGH ALCHEMY OF AFRICA – BEN OKRI

2013/02/05

CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

There’s little that can be said about Chinua Achebe that has not been said. Little to know about him that even the most ignorant of us has not caught in the last one month and so days. From the greatest of orators and the very best of writers to unheard names, common people and … Continue reading CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

2013/24/03

Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive and so impactful that we begin to pray that they will never die. But who doesn’t know that that is mere wishful thinking? To be sure, the Eagle on Iroko didn’t die young, but he left when … Continue reading Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

2013/21/02

VOTE EUGENIA ABU FOR VLISCO WOMAN OF THE MONTH 2013

Hey, there’s a vote going on with amazing women to cast for as Vlisco Woman of the month – the vote link is here I am concerned particularly with the Nigerian category – naturally 🙂 … Most of you would take Chimamanda [I know, right 🙂 ] or Joke Silva or Abike Dabiri or Amina … Continue reading VOTE EUGENIA ABU FOR VLISCO WOMAN OF THE MONTH 2013

2013/29/012013/29/01

CALL FOR (SUBMISSIONS) POEMS CELEBRATING NIGERIA AT 100

Straining at the Seams: Poems for Nigeria at 100 Edited by Kabura Zakama Kairos Productions is pleased to invite submissions from poets for publication in an anthology titled Straining at the Seams: Poems for Nigeria at 100. The anthology, intended to discuss the life and times of Nigeria since the merger of the Northern and … Continue reading CALL FOR (SUBMISSIONS) POEMS CELEBRATING NIGERIA AT 100

2012/23/11

ARTS AND ITS UNIVERSALITY: A CONVERSATION [1]

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 ARTS AND ITS UNIVERSALITY: A CONVERSATION [1]

2012/20/112013/13/07

REPARATIONS: WHAT NIGERIA OWES THE TORTOISE [2] by (Pius Adesanmi)

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 REPARATIONS: WHAT NIGERIA OWES THE TORTOISE [2] by (Pius Adesanmi)

2012/20/112012/20/11

REPARATIONS: WHAT NIGERIA OWES THE TORTOISE [1] (by Pius Adesanmi)

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 REPARATIONS: WHAT NIGERIA OWES THE TORTOISE [1] (by Pius Adesanmi)

2012/06/112013/17/11

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN (Short Story) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Igbo say that a mature eagle feather will always remain spotless. * It was the kind of day in the middle of the rainy season when the sun felt like an orange flame placed close to my skin, yet it was raining, and I remembered when I was a child, when I would run … Continue reading HALF OF A YELLOW SUN (Short Story) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2012/13/072012/13/07

PRESS RELEASE – THE LONGLIST 2012 WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN AFRICA

THE LUMINA FOUNDATION, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GLOBACOM HEREBY ANNOUNCE THE LONG LIST OF THE 2012 EDITION OF THE WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN AFRICA (KNOWN AS OUR AFRICAN NOBEL) • The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa was established in 2005 by The Lumina Foundation, as a Biennial Award to the best literary … Continue reading PRESS RELEASE – THE LONGLIST 2012 WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN AFRICA