Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
By Prisca Sam-Duru STOCKHOLM — Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson, 76, was honoured “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The prize was announced […]
Beginning of my days at St Gloria’s College, Maryland
At some point, Freedom Ohaka’s elder brother, Charles Ohaka, the great footballer and former captain of Spartans FC, came to Lagos and joined us in the one room at Mafoluku. By that time Freedom’s work had stopped. So in the room, out of the four of us living there, I was the only one who was working.
WSICE 84: How Abia student, Onyemelukwe beat 83 others to win Soyinka essay competition
Despite the economic crunch biting the nation, organisrs of the annual Wole Soyinka birthday celebration,Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Project, WSICE 84, again rolled out the drums in celebration of the 84th birthday of the Nobel laureate, Prof. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka.
Russians: Nice people in the land of the sun
From a historic point of view, it is also the most beautiful and precious attraction in Moscow and according to a tourist guide handbook, the only one that should not be missed even if you are in Moscow for only a few hours.
Foreign is foreign if you are black – Prof Buthelezi
She made this disclosure at the conference tagged “J.P. Clark International Conference (JPCIC-2018)”, the first in an envisaged series of annual conferences in which the works of celebrated Nigerian writer and scholar, Professor J.P. Clark-Bekederemo is brought into focus to test their appeal and perennial relevance in a changing world.
Olola Olabode Ogunlana releases his treasures Out of the Black Pot and Selected Tales
The reason for that challenge is that many of those culture-loaded octogenarians are not literate, and those who could read and write lack the required discipline and skill to document for us and for posterity the ‘goods’ they carry within.
