Sometimes finding titles to these posts can be a challenge… However, getting titles to publish hasn’t been so much of an issue. We have had a healthy number come in. So, where have we been? It has been a very busy season for me and all of us at SEVHAGE. We made a call for … Continue reading SPARKING THE LITEROSPHERE WITH SEVHAGE (WHERE WE HAVE BEEN)
i knew you long before i knew you existed long before you stood before me, warm and new york said hello with her brilliant smile; you bear in you the light of the cosmos, your eyes two rivers leading to a great sea, your heart warm, incarnate and inextinguishable, flame where you carry as constellation … Continue reading Becky (A Poem) by amu nnadi
Open your thought bank, and see this clearly as we think it from the dark like we are viewing it all through cat eyes: You grow up not knowing your father. You have heard so much about him and though you would naturally want to see him, to catch a glance of what your progenitor … Continue reading THROUGH THE DEEPENING DEPTHS OF CAT EYES: THOUGHTS ON PEVER X’S NOVEL By Su’eddie Vershima AGEMA
DISCUSSION BUZZ: The Symbols Cuisine Gallery. 7pm. We walked in, Maik Ortserga (Executive Editor with Aboki Publishers and Secretary of Benue Association of Nigerian Authors) and I. There was Anselm Ngutsav, Apine Kenneth and Stephen Aba. I was still wondering if I had made the right choice of forfeiting my Abuja trip for this session – … Continue reading LITERARY BUZZ: PURPLE SILVER OPEN MIC SESSION (25th May, 2013): DISCUSSION
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
Art is life. Life’s art. Writing is an art, it could also be a life. What else captures the details of the past, intertwining it with the occurrence of the present, yet plodding the way for the future but writing. With just a few words, your imagination travels between time and space, thus making geographic … Continue reading Wordsmiths in Nigeria: Relics of a lost age? by Chika Nwakama
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 THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS LITERARY AWARDS WINNERS FOR 2012
(SMALL NOTE TO NIGERIAN LITERATURE AND ALL INVOLVED: DAMN YOU!) __________________________________________________________________________ Yup, damn you! I am usually conservative but even for that, damn me! Nigerian writers and its literature is largely uncelebrated in the country – for most of that, damn Nigeria! Nigerians prefer to read foreign books – damn Nigerians! Readers would rather read … Continue reading DAMN YOU (LETTER TO NIGERIAN LITERATURE AND ALL INVOLVED)
Su'eddie in Life n' Literature 