Syl Cheney-Coker is one of Sierra Leone’s most renowned poets, novelist, and journalist who has a global sense of literary history. Educated at the Universities of Oregon and Wisconsin, and a former visiting writer at the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa, he has through his write ups, introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literature to Sierra Leone.

RENOWNED painter and printmaker, Kunle Adeyemi has been working seriously towards the growth of the visual art in Nigeria.

Farafina, the literary imprint of Kachifo Limited, is set to release the second editions of Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Half of a Yellow Sun, by the same author. The last will sport a film tie-in cover, while all of them will be pocket-sized, freshly designed editions. Farafina will also publish the Nigerian edition of Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk This Path, in the third quarter.

The battle against breast cancer was taking to another level as Pink Pearl Foundation put together a movie tagged Living Funeral. The movie which was produced by Mrs Orode Ryan-Okpu and directed by Udoka Oyeka also featured Liz Ameye, Nollywood veteran and renowned actress who is making a come back to the screen after several years of absence.

IT has been no holds barred for Nigeria’s talented writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie since hitting the literary scene in a career that spans a decade, as she has attracted for herself, a shelf full of laurels and honours which are eloquent indication of the reward for hard work and creativity.