Reimagining reality from Yusuf Durodola’s New Gaze
Durodola explains his motivation in framing perception as both a subject of interest and method, saying, “While the eyes allow us to see, it is perception that enables us to negotiate the presence of our reality.”
Onuora Ossie Enekwe: Conversation with Nigerian Literature
Among the oft-cited second generation of Nigerian literary scholars, to whom the credit of sustaining the dignified heritage of Nigerian literary intellection as diligently inaugurated by the now legendry pioneers of the tradition is most glowingly ascribed, Onuora Ossie Enekwe is undoubtedly a leading light.
After the Nightmare, What Next ?
Expressing candid opinion is not something serving public servants often engage in. That’s not Dr Iyorwuese Hagher, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, in his latest book, Nigeria: After the Nightmare
At NIBF, experts discuss book future in the age of social media
The 10th Nigeria International Book Fair(NIBF), which officially opened with book exhibition at the Multi-purpose Halls of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, on Monday, 9th May, 2011 came to its high point on Tuesday, 10th with a critical appraisal of the impact of new technologies on the African Book Industry.
At 64th Cannes film festival
As Hollywood and Bollywood stars shine at the premiere of the sexual drama “Sleeping Beauty” the toast of the Cannes Film Festival, nothing to show from Nollywood the so called second largest movie industry in the world.
UI hosts colloquium on Abiola Irele…
The Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, will today at the Draper’s Hall host a colloquium and Festschrift in honour of a grade critic of African Literature and erudite Harvard Professor, Francis Abiola Irele, who turns 75 May 22, 2011.
