The Wylie Agency – considered the most powerful and influential literary agency in the world – has reported that their client Professor Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart which celebrates its 55th year of continuous publication in 2013, “has sold between 15 million and 20 million copies world wide in 60 languages.”

It was a particularly momentous occasion for Nigerian art, especially the booming film industry as the highly anticipated epic and striking adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning novel, Half Of A Yellow Sun, was staged at the 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which is going on at the Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Nnamdi Ebo is a political scientist, public affairs analyst, author of Legal method and a scholar in legal literature and politics. Ebo recently launched a new book, There was a Time, a civil war memoir in Abuja. A book many felt he must have been inspired by Professor Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country which he said was just a coincidence because he had thought of the title eight years before Achebe came out with There was a Country in 2012. In this chat, Ebo speaks on what inspired him to write the book and many other issues.

The need for an improvement in the reading culture of Nigerians was brought to the fore once again during the celebration of the International Literacy Day held last week at the US Consulate, Lagos. The September 8th as it is customary, was celebrated as a day to focus attention on the importance of promoting worldwide literacy.

The Organising Committee of the Life In My City Art Festival (LIMCAF), the Enugu based annual youth art festival, has announced a cast of experienced and internationally recognised photo artists who have accepted to be members of the Committee of Jurors for the 2013 edition of its Photo Africa contest.