Reading at the World Poetry Day in Abuja celebrated by Arojah Concepts and Korean Cultural Centre

Greener across the border

We are all dead when we arrive this world only awaiting the confirmation accompanied by wailing and good words. So, that is it: we are all at various stages of dead. Only the mind creates the difference.

I was in Jos yesterday, full of

REPORT OF THE PANEL OF JUDGES

This year’s annual Nigeria Literature Prize sponsored by the Nigeria LNG has now entered the second year of the second four-year cycle. The 2009 competition is dedicated to poetry.

Discussions in the media show that by now the poetry-loving members of the Nigerian reading public have a general awareness of the goals of the competition. Two key factors underpin these goals: the first is the relevance of the competition to our cultural development, and the second is

Nine called, none chosen

By Akintayo Abodunrin

October 13, 2009 09:52PMT

Long before the literature committee dropped the bombshell that there was no winner for the 2009 NLNG Prize for Literature, speculation was already rife that the prize would be given to Ahmed Maiwada, author of ‘Fossils'.

The lobby of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, venue of the Grand Award Night, was a hotbed of gossip. "He is the only writer on the shortlist

THE FUNERAL OF NIGERIAN LITERATURE

In every marriage of sham there is imminent birth of child that would be loved by one of the couple in a guise to have the newcomer spoilt or poisoned against the other; this captures the