Arts/Books

The festival is the biggest annual gathering of African writers, founders, editors and art enthusiasts in Nigeria.

“This conversation is one of the highlights of the 20th Lagos Book and Art Festival.”

Wednesday’s events would begin with NAFEST Cultural Roundtable on Entrepreneurship.

$100,000 each was given in the prize for Science and Literature respectively while one million naira was given for literary criticism award.

His entry was chosen from amongst 18 other entries submitted by talented young African writers.

Achebe has trodden his path; Adichie is also treading her own path, one she has constructed through hard work, perseverance and tenacity of purpose.

This text should thus be considered a literary blueprint for resilience.

Mr Sylva will debut “Take Five”, a segment where high profile personalities talk of five books that have impacted their lives.

Sprinkle-Hamlin is the first woman and African-American to head the Forsyth County library system.

“The devastation wrought by Boko Haram has rewritten the narrative of northeastern Nigeria, this time with blood and gore.”

LABAF was birthed in September 1999, as Nigeria returned to civil rule after 16 years of military dictatorship.

“The workshop would also serve as a platform for writers to learn from one another and from established writers.”

The 2018 ART X Prize with Access winner, Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola, will have a solo presentation of her project.

The event is the first of its kind in Minna and the North-central region of Nigeria.

The Portrait of Britain is a foremost photography competition in the United Kingdom.

The idea, she says, is to motivate youth to aspire to be more. 

Categories like Afro-pessimism are just a little bit empty, sometimes.

The two books explore the subject of religious polarisation.

The writer also speaks about what inspired the book.

Wole Soyinka’s “A Dance of the Forests” was featured on stage.

The winner says he wrote the novel to help draw attention to a myriad of issues in Nigeria.

The Man Booker International Prize, launched in 2005, is an international literary award hosted in the UK