Arts/Books

To mark this year's World Tourism Day celebrations holding September 27, award-winning travel writer, Pelu Awofeso, has launched the e-versions...

The show is like a gem hiding from view. But those who have discovered it on Youtube or on SaharaTV...

By Abimbola Adigun Activists all over Africa will gather at the University of Ibadan Conference centre on Thursday, September 26,...

Tade Ipadeola, Amu Nnadi and Promise Ogochukwu have being announced as the final shortlist for the 2013 edition of the...

National Security: Intelligence and Community Partnership Approach Edited by Solomon E Arase; LawLords Publications, Lagos & Abuja;2013; 242pp National security is...

Adichie seems to be always drawn to “stabbing at something new.” In praise of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun,...

Iconic photographer, Peter Oyeyemi Obe, who brought the swampy gloom of the Nigerian civil war horror to public reality via...

Of the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist of Open City, Teju Cole’s elegantly disarming novel, finds himself, two strike...

I was greatly thrilled by the recent 3-Day International Conference in Akure, capital of Ondo State, in memory of a...

Book Title: Nigeria is Negotiable – Essays on Nigeria’s Tortuous Road to Democracy and Nationhood Author: Chido Onumah Publishers: African...

Mr. Onumah is an author and an activist. Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Rauf Aregbesola of the State...

KCEE is set to thrill guests at the event Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria’s celebrated writer and Creative Director of Farafina Trust,...

Title: A Quiet Revolutionary Author: Ibrahim Buhari Publisher: Kraft Books Date of Publication: 2012 Pages: 173    For this holiday season, my recommendation is...

Dr Ropo Sekoni, a retired Professor of Comparative literature, and chair, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting, turns 70 saturday,...

The Shuga Comic Book will be published by Kachifo in January 2014. The MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Nigerian publishing company, Kachifo, are inviting pitches from budding...

The party will be held in August. Encomium weekly, a Nigerian magazine and awards company, has announced plans to mark...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s third novel, AMERICANAH, has been awarded the2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. The Heartland Prize is...

The whole wide world is stark awake, day and night, waiting for the Mandela hour. But there’s no escaping the...

Tope Folarin is the fifth Nigerian to win the Caine Prize, now in its fourteenth year. Nigeria’s Tope Folarin has...

Nigeria has a lot to showcase to the world. Elizabeth Embu The president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday night launched a...

One of the most important foundations of any civilised society is a good knowledge of its own history. I therefore...

Book publishing in Nigeria is in dire straits. It shook me up like a charge of electricity that there is...

The exchange of brickbats between Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, and writer, Adewale Maja-Pearce, has taken a new turn with Mr Maja-Pearce claiming...

Atiku’s son paid N1million and a flashy car as bride price. Bauchi town was agog on Saturday as Mohammed Abubakar,...

The carpenter will hold his exhibition at Wheatbaker on June 8. When Raoul starts a piece of work, he marks the...