NAMIBIAN High Commissioner to Nigeria, Selma Ashipala- Musavyi has disclosed that her country would welcome corporation with Nigeria on areas of literary and cultural exchange, noting that such gesture would be of immense benefit to Namibia.

That evening at the Kolanut Conference and Event Centre, Barrack’s Road , Calabar, was blessed with heavy downpour. But it didn’t dampen the spirit. The spirit of conviviality, of recognition and appreciation, which the people’s paradise city of Calabar wanted to shower on its governor. That was exactly what the evening represented as quality citizens and admirers of Liyel Imoke, Governor of Cross River State, was being honoured.

Some books can simply overwhelm one. I guess I do have a well-earned reputation as a devourer of books and the written word, but I have to confess from the very beginning that Chuks Iloegbunam’s General of the People’s Army was quite overpowering to me. It is a book that contains multitudes. The well-annotated volume deserves a dissertation for due justice to be done to it, not a short newspaper review!

In advancing the slogan of “Language, Literature and the decolonization of Nigeria’s political culture,” we are merely saying that we don’t wish any longer to adapt ourselves to the special features of white colonial and post-colonial rule.

Judging by the decency and simplicity that graced Femi Onasanya’s book presentation recently at the Function Hall of the MUSON Centre Lagos, it will only be fair to describe the launch as unique. The organisers, chief host and guests especially, the Chairman of the occasion and former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan; former Minister for Industry, Chief Mrs Nike Akande; former President of ICAN and Chief launcher, Mrs Adenike Adeniran and many others must be commended for sticking to time.