Dearth of books is a major contributor to the decline in education in the country. The rare sight of books has even created strangeness between books and people.

Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Turnhout, Belgium, with her husband and four children.

She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and an MA from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She also holds a PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, having completed a thesis entitled “In the shadow of Ala: Igbo women writing as an act of righting” in 2004.

Music lovers especially lovers of the art music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music otherwise known as classical music were last Monday treated to a scintillating session of what would be described as a harvest of songs by the graduating students of the Muson School of Music.

Immortal Legends of Africa by Pa Anyi Agwudagwu reads like the Trojan war told by homer but it is deeper than the epic poem. It is closer to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart but it is not a war story.

A crop of seasoned writers at a closing ceremony of the Fidelity Bank organised workshop in Creative Writing told New Generation of Nigerian writers to direct their creative art towards the telling of the Nigerian story as well as in raising concerns for national issues.