Category: Literary World

Tomorrow, March 21 is UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. In the world over, bookies will be celebrating the event with some reading, writing and poetry performances. To celebrate the day in Lagos, Providus Bank is hosting An Evening of Life and Ideas with Wole Soyinka. The event is scheduled for 5:00 pm at the bank’s corporate […]

A first print, first edition copy of late Chinua Achebe’s premier novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ has been purchased for one million naira. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the private sale took place on Twitter following a call by author, Lola Shoneyin for collectors to purchase the vintage copy. Shoneyin, who is well-known for her […]

By Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale Twenty-year old poet, literary scholar and 2018 Coventry University First Class Honours graduate, Aanu Adesina speaks on his inspiration in a chat with Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale. Anuoluwapo Adesina has his path as a scholar, writer and artist cut out early in life. He was born into a family of educationists, with […]

By Yinka Fabowale I’m posting this story for your enjoyment and in tribute to one of my theatre icons, late Moses Olaiya Adejumo (aka Baba Sala), who passed on on Sunday. The report, first published in Sunday Sun some years back, is the archetypal narrative of Nigerian artistes – their rise to fame and riches, […]

By Tunde Odesola Behind his back, his students call him Assault Rifle or A.R, for short; Professor Austere Riches is the blight of male students and a terror to their female counterparts. He collects money for marks with his right hand from male students and caresses the crevices of female students with his left hand, […]