Arts/Books

“I could not believe it when I was told that I am the winner of 2019 BBC News Pidgin essay competition.”

The award-winning novel centres around struggles of womanhood and parenting amidst sexual abuse and societal pressure in marriage.

The project is to take digital images of artefacts and monuments in all museums in the country.

“If we restructure the carnival in a manner that our finances can handle, we will do it. The key to this is sponsorship.”

During an evening of book reading and signing on Tuesday at Roving Heights bookstore, Abuja, Mr Beemen expounded his claim.

The anthology is a collection of 100 stories that centre on the nuances of campus life experiences such as sex-for-grade, cultism, rape, frustration, triumph, struggles and trials.

The audience will interrogate Mr Van Beemen’s expose on Heineken and its excesses in Africa.

A leading literary event in Africa, Ake Book Festival is reputed for bringing together the biggest and brightest.

Lupita in a recent interview with “Good Morning America” said that seeing light-skinned people on TV and in books affected her self-esteem as a young girl.

Mr Ndibe provides an inside look into the life of Soyinka in a manner that masterfully captures the enigmatic laureate’s literary, social and political engagements.

Olga Tokarczuk was named the winner of 2018 edition which was delayed by a year after a crisis in the academy sparked by sexual allegations

Mr Mohammed said it was not true that he paid more attention to the information sector during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term.

The vice president said the Nigerian creative industry is in a critically innovative moment

In 12 chapters, the book shows young contemporary businessmen and women, spanning enterprises from broadcasting to construction through couture, dairy production, public relations, innovative digital platforms, health products and cosmetology.

This year the show will celebrate some of Lagos’ most exciting emerging and underground mavericks.

Mr Obanya, an emeritus Professor, delivered a paper on the essence of technological advancement and the influence on the media on language.

The solo exhibition includes 38 oil paintings, pencil sketches, seminal works in wood, and an installation of copper sculptures

There is the compelling need for me to go back to the publishing of Alex Haley’s Roots in 1976 to find a book that bears comparison to Anaele Ihuoma’s debut novel Imminent River.

To date, 34 Nigerian literary figures have participated in the IWP Fall Residency.

The competition is for students in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria.

The author seeks to rehabilitate victims of sexual abuse especially commercial sex workers.

Mr Prosper is widely known for over a hundred short stories which he regularly circulates on social media.