After successful take off of the well received International cultural Exchange programme with two plays; Preemeptive and Seven last year, the organisers of the event, Zimrage Multimedia has announced its preparedness for the second leg of its internal programme.

In this present age when modernisation or civilization has robbed our children and youths the needed time to listen to folk-tales and stories from their parents, the need to come up with other means of impacting the right values to them becomes the problem. And many people have come up with many ways of addressing the problem and one of the ways is through writing of books.

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

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.

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