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By Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent Click! It comes twice. The first click may have a flash. But the second click does. The flash light comes blinding. But that isn’t my problem. I like it, especially when I’m placed on serious smiles with crisp notes. Halima, that woman I love likes it when I smile. Other...
By Fego Martins Ahia A little silence hung between both of us. But the air still smelt of February; the wind still slammed against the windows, as if it were going to rain. I wilted a little more, though the bamboo bed creaked under me. The half-moon resembled my limpid eyes – faint and...
Then she heard a swishing sound and listened. “What was that noise,” she asked, turning to Udo. Udo looked blank. It sounded like a plane, but the swishing sound was strange. The seller was talking to her but she was not listening. The sound was increasing, and there was indication other people had heard it...
The Nigerian literary scene is blessed with many gifted writers. In the midst of them all, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo shines like a thousand stars. Her writing career was launched when “The Call of Death”, a short story she wrote, got published many years ago. She is a former winner of the NLNG Prize for Literature, the...
Afro-American rapper, Nas, has signed a book deal, in which he consented to publishing his autobiography next year. He will write the book in alliance with Touré, the music journalist. A decade earlier, Nas has rejected the idea naming one of his albums a name similar to what many Christians refer to God as “I...
If you thought that an end has come to the incessant lawsuits over intellectual property, you had better woke up to reality. The latest is by Harlan Ellison, the Hugo-award winning novelist. He is suing the producers of the film, “In Time”...
In the second week of September, Salman Rushdie opened a Twitter account. He tweets under the handle @SalmanRushdie1. He was apparently “forced” to add numeral 1 to his name after another user with his name questioned him thus:...
The Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) will take place in Busan, Korea, from 29 November to 1 December 2011. The HLF-4 presents a unique opportunity for achieving better aid and development through more effective, harmonized cooperation among governments, civil societies and the private sector. This multi-stakeholder event will seek a new vision and...
Philip Nash’s “Rejoinder” has been announced as the overall winner and regional winner (Canada and Europe) in the 2011 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Although Nash was born in Kent, England, he has lived in Shanghai for almost a decade. He read English Literature at Oxford University where he graduated in 2003. His story, “Rejoinder”, was...
An event held on Monday, 12 September, 2011, at 10 Degrees Events, Billingsway Road, Oregun, Ikeja, put the Lagos state government into the Guinness Book of Records. About 4,500 school children, civil servants and young people were gathered to read from books, mostly novels and novellas. The event which was organised by...
A release duly signed by the spokesperson of the NLNG, Ifeanyi Mbanefo, revealed that Eno’s Story by Ayodele Olofintuade, The Missing Clock by Mai Nasara and The Great Fall by Chinyere Obi-Obasi are in the race for the prize. Olofintuade is a freelance editor and teacher of creative writing at Ibadan International School. Mai Masara...
