NPL: How three authors turned pain, history and faith into poetry
By Prisca Sam-Duru The 2026 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature nears its climax parading three poets, three different obsessions, but one common urgency — to hold a mirror to Nigeria. James Ngwu Eze writes against fear and silence. Tares Oburumu interrogates the colonial name we still bear. Ogaga Ifowodo asks a disturbingly simple […]
The return of a history classic
A review of The Transformation of Katsina, 1400-1883 by Yusufu Bala Usman, published by Yusufu Bala Usman Institute, 2024.
Ini Brown’s Africa’s Splendour opens @ ArtLab
The importance of local contents, particularly of indigenous values, takes centre stage in artist, Ini Brown’s display of mastery of environmental subjects.
South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday, October 10, was awarded to the South Korean author, Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Zainab and Ahmed Ado Bayero speak on their predicament
By Osa Mbonu-Amadi Zainab is the maker of the documentary film titled “My Father, The Emir: A Portrait of Ado Bayero”. Since the demise of their late father, HRM Ado Bayero, the former Emir of Kano, Zainab, Ahmed her younger brother and their mother, Hauwa, have been on their own struggling to eke out a […]
I’m motivated to do more – Prisca, winner of NLNG Prize
Last Friday, October 4, 2024, our own Prisca Sam-Duru won the NLNG’s N5m Nigeria Prize @ 20 Media Award.
