I try to be Afrocentric in my writings — Obinna Chilekezi
By Chris Onuoha Obinna Chilekezi is a poet, author, teacher, literary critic and research fellow including insurance expert. His passion for creative writing, poetry precisely, spans over three decades with lots of publications to his credit. The Imo State-born social commentator, in this interview describes his journey into literary world as one with multifaceted background. […]
On Finding Myself
Flora Nwapa published Efuru in 1962, four years after Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. I did not know all of this then at that age but I was fascinated that she was a writer because whatever else that occurred to me that African women could be, writing was not one of them. We had had career days right from kindergarten where we were exposed to all the available career options that awaited us
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.
Abubakar Othman’s heady poetic fusion
Sometimes, a man’s profundity may be better appreciated when seen in person. Such was the case with the man in the spotlight at the April edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session.
Social Media and the future of books in Nigeria
As the Nigerian International Book Fair began in Lagos, Nigerian born but United States of America based writer and book promoter discusses how the new forms of social media can help to drive the future of book culture, market and promotion.
In the past it was very difficult to value art – Yemisi Shyllon
Engr Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon, Founder /CEO, Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation, OYASAF is a major art collector and player in the emerging Nigerian Visual Art Market. In this exclusive interview with Arts on Sunday Vanguard, Shyllon speaks on the beauty of this emerging market and its challenges.
Jurisprudential examination of Sovereignty Crises in Six Commonwealth States
The book “Jurisprudence of Sovereignty – Commonwealth States; Political Instability and Crisis of Constitution Making”, is an incisive jurisprudential examination of the crisis of sovereignty in six selected commonwealth states – Cyprus, Malaysia, Pakistan, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria by Dr Chris Anyanwu
