The month of November is a very bad month for the people of the Niger Delta States of Nigeria. It was the month in which in 1995 that vibrant writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa was murdered by the dictators of the Nigerian State. Since after that primitive wasting of a creative voice, the Nigerian literary community has decided to honour the month of November as some kind of memorial in honour of the departed writer.

On July 1, 2010, MNet premiered Studio 53 Extra, a programme focused on the glitzy and glamourous side of Africa. If the earlier incarnation of the show invoked Indiana Jones, this one was undoubtedly all Naomi Campbell. Movie premieres, the runway and album launches are some of the events one tends to see on this show.

Bilkisu Abubakar is one Northern Nigeria female writer, who has employed the tool of creative writing in engaging the discourse of religion, gender and polygamy in the predominantly Islamic North. In this conversation with United States of Americas based literary scholar and writer, Unoma Azuah, how she has successfully done this with her two novels :To Live Again and The Woman in Me.

Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.

Political office holders in Nigeria are fond of travelling abroad. When it gets to the extreme with some of them, the media say they are junketing around the world. What provokes the majority of the people is not the amount of money usually expended on the trips. They are particularly angry that the leaders do not care to replicate some of the good things they see and enjoy abroad when they return home.