Professor James Tar Tsaaior’s I Am Chibok: #BringBackOurGirls is a collection of poems that encapsulates the wicked incidence of April 2014 that saw the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok Secondary School, in Borno State.

For societies to make meaningful progress, the basic assumptions of its rulings class must continuously be interrogated. No serious society should leave critical state decisions solely in the hands of politicians without engaging such ideas in an intellectual judo. This intellectual confrontation is the role of social critics and public intellectuals, one which Ayodele Adio has lent his pen to.

Ake festival brings together Novelists, poets, dancers, actors, illustrators, activists, musicians and artists to share their work and their ideas.

Following the successful launch of its new brand identity, Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, 9mobile, has equally changed the name of its pan-African literary prize to 9mobile Prize for Literature.

Events marking the 2017 edition of the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange, WSICE Project, ended recently in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The weeklong  programme commenced with the arrival on July 12, of the 83 finalists in the annual WSICE Secondary School Essay competition, who were made to write an essay on the topic: ’Intolerance; The Burden of our Moral and National Conscience’.