Tuesday, March 13, 2012

"Distinctive" short stories to Chatto

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Good things are happening to African literature. Here's one: "Chatto & Windus has acquired a collection of short stories by Nig...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

OJUKWU (II): THE FINAL BIAFRAN TRUTH

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On 29 July 1966, it was the persuasive British High Commissioner in Lagos who prevented Northern Nigeria from seceding. Sir Francis Cumming-...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

What Lord Lugard Thought About Nigerians -Tunde Fagbenle

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This one got me thinking: "Last week my friend, Babs Sobanjo, forwarded me the following piece said to be an extract from a Confidentia...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Trial of Robert Mugabe -A review by Kenneth Kudakwashe Nyoka

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Here is a powerful review of my book, The Trial of Robert Mugabe, by a Zimbabwean civil rights activist.Kenneth Kudakwashe Nyoka. He is a fo...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

The lost promise of outrage

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One day, when the story of the renaissance of African literature is written, it will probably begin like this: There is Caine Prize, there i...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Season of Migration

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On the advice of several friends, I am in the process of merging this blog, Nigerian Literature Review, with my other, more expansive one, A...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

A Swamp Full Of Hyenas [Book Review]

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Ikhide Ikheloa is one of the good, really good reviewers out there. He discusses one of the books I thought every Nigerian/African should re...