literature

Dying Reading Culture And The Bleak Future Facing Nigeria

January 9, 2023 2:49 am

As cliché as this might sound, the popular saying ‘if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book’ couldn’t be any truer. Interestingly, and sadly too, Nigerians take this even further as they wouldn’t even read a single page, let alone talk of an entire book. This sad reality has not only made Nigerians and Nigeria lose a lot of progressive opportunities but has caught international attention and made Nigeria the laughing stock once again.

When we emphasise about the dying reading culture in Nigeria, there are two ways to look at it. …

French Nobel Prize Winner Calls For Protest Against Macron

October 10, 2022 4:36 am

French author awarded who was recently awarded a Nobel Literature Prize, Annie Ernaux on Sunday wrote an open letter supporting a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron called by the country’s left-wing opposition.

Organisers of the demonstration on October 16 have already come out to accuse Macron of failing to tackle soaring prices for energy and other essentials and of insufficient action against climate change.

‘Emmanuel Macron is seizing this inflation to widen the wealth gaps, and boost the profits of capital, at everyone else’s expense,’ said the letter in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

‘And this shock is allowing …

Give Up Social Media For Some Time, Read – Chimamanda

October 9, 2022 4:57 am

Popular Nigerian multi-award-winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has called on youths to give up social media for some weeks, and channel their efforts toward imbibing the culture of reading.

The novelist made this disclosure yesterday while speaking at the at the Harvard Centre Honors, Massachusetts, US, where she received W.E.B Du Bois Medal honour.

Adichie said, ‘And so for you young people, I just want to make a very small suggestion, how about you give up social media for you know, two weeks, three weeks, a month, and read, read, read.’

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French Author, Ernaux Wins Nobel Literature Prize

French Author, Ernaux Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

October 7, 2022 5:06 am

French writer, Annie Ernaux, has been announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the Nobel committee chair submitted was an ‘uncompromising’ 50-year body of work exploring ‘a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language, and class.’

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the prestigious honour is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£807,000). Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin, chair of the committee, said the 82-year-old’s work was ‘admirable and enduring.’

He said she used ‘courage and clinical acuity’ to tell semi-autobiographical stories that uncover “the contradictions of social experience …

Dr. MarkAnthony Nze Literary Prize: A Lifetime Opportunity

March 8, 2022 4:49 am

Last week’s announcement that popular social critic, literary guru and media executive, Dr MarkAnthony Nze has instituted a very rare opportunity for young people has sent tongues wagging and mouths salivating. Many people from all corners of the world have been seeking answers to the many questions on their minds as to how to be a part of the opportunity.

An opportunity like that doesn’t come everyday and that’s a fact. This underscores why many people have so far shown interest in becoming the first winner of the Dr. MarkAnthony Nze Literary Prize.

Anyone who has come across Dr. Nze …

Jude Idada: Winner Of 2019 Nigeria Prize For Literature

October 13, 2019 3:10 am

For Jude Idada, luck finally shone on him on Friday as he was named the 2019 winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, for the cycle on Children’s Literature.

Idada’s Boom Boom edged out Mysteries at Ebenezer’s Lodge by Dunni Olatunde and The Great Walls of Benin by O.T. Begho to clinch the prize. The book had competed against 173 books submitted for the competition in March 2019.

The announcement was made at NLNG’s 20-30 Anniversary Ball and Award Night in Abuja by Professor Emeritus Ayo Banjo, Chairman of the Advisory Board. The event …

Ayobami Adebayo wins 2018 9mobile prize for literature

August 11, 2019 1:48 am

When the management of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS) assured of fulfilling its obligations to 2018 finalists of the 9mobile Prize for Literature, many had wondered how soon it was going to be.

The shortlist of three books was released back in January 2018, and the winner expected to be revealed around March of that year, which made critical stakeholders to reach out to prize adjudicators on its status.

Organisers, last year, had stated: “We are just concluding the process of 9mobile ownership change hence the delay in the announcement of the 2018 winner. We are hopeful that …