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After the hijacked planed taxied to a halt at the runway, Inyagha assured the pilot and the passengers that their lives were safe. The hijackers quickly arranged for vehicles to convey the pilot, plane crew and some of the passengers back to Benin where the plane earlier took off.
Writers in Nigeria seem to have had a good time this year. It is true they have been given a bloody nose in Kano where censors tried to regiment them through individual registration and censoring of their books in the name of cultural preservation, but, by and large, it has been a great year. The 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has been well celebrated in five cities in the ...
The coordinator local organising committee (LOC) chairman, Northern Zonal Book Fair Committee, Malam Sanusi Nassarawa Abdullahi said the Abuja Book Fair currently going on would improve the reading culture of people of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in particular and the country in general.
Africa is not an easy continent to write about. In or outside of the academe, Africais not easily understood. And indeed, the misconceptions and stereotypes aboutthe continent can be perplexing and discouraging.
Ngasireh Irene Touray, a 21-year old Gambian girl, on Friday launched her first book entitled "Teenage life Crisis" at the Yahya Jammeh Joint Officers Mess in Kotu.
Stakeholders in book industry including the government need to drop sentiments and greed in order to make books readily available and affordable to readers in Nigeria and stop their political propaganda on poor reading culture.
Enole Ditsheko's partial memoir of his preparations to go to America, his first six months there and then some aspects of his return to Botswana, is told in 24 chapters across three books.
Not many Batswana are aware that Justice Unity Dow is a prolific writer, who at some point published three novels in a space of four years and got external rave reviews.
An exhibition of books being dubbed "Tenda das Letras" (Tent of Knowledge), is open to the public since last Saturday in Soweto Square, in Luanda, with the objective of stimulating the liking for reading.
The book by Mrs. Oluremi Obasanjo, first wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, presented to the public, last Tuesday, in Lagos, turns out to be an x-ray of the sociological, psychological and physiological evolution of someone who has become one of Nigeria's most complex leaders since independence.
Captures the power of individuals and art at a single night's masquerade performance
“Francis Deng provides an eloquent reminder that African countries are facing a constitutional deficit rather than simply a democratic one. While the West applauds or bemoans the outcome of specific elections, Africa faces the immense challenge of developing a new constitutionalism to accommodate diversity and manage it in the context of the cultural values of its own people.” - ...
Infant books writer, Yola de Castro, Thursday in Luanda defended the regular organisation of literary contests for children as a means to stimulate a habit for reading.
A book fair started Thursday in Luanda's Viana Youths Home, as part of the celebrations of the 33rd anniversary of the national independence, November 11.
A book entitled "Grasshoppers No Longer" written by Rev. Dr. Herman B. Browne is expected to be launched in Monrovia this Saturday, November 15, 2008.
The Angolan writer, Isabel Ferreira has scheduled for Saturday 15, the release of her latest book entitled "O Guardador de Memórias (memories' keeper)", in a ceremony to take place at the Journalist Training Centre (Cefojor), in Luanda.
Criticism has continued to trail the alleged rejection by Chairman, Abeokuta South Council Area of Ogun State, Prince Yanju Lipede, of 10,000 note books donated to schools in the council area, by Speaker, House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole.
A writer's source of raw materials is what happens to the writer on the one hand and what happens around him on the other hand.
A total of 645 copies of the recently published book "In the Footsteps of Mr Andersson - Milestones in Swedish-Namibia Relations" by Christer L. Pettersson, will this morning be formally handed over to the Minister of Education at his office by the Swedish Chargé d' Affaires, Lena Johanson Blomstrand.
FRIENDS, families and well wishers of Mrs Oluremi Obasanjo, first wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, gathered yesterday in Lagos to launch the book written by her entitled "Bitter Sweet": My Life with Obasanjo.
The Criminal Court of Paris Friday acquitted famous French writer and journalist, Pierre Pean, of complicity in racial defamation and provocation to racial discrimination following publication in 2005 of his book "Black Furies, White Liars (Noires Fureurs, Blancs Menteurs)" on 1994 Rwandan genocide.
A digital library, estimated at $200,000, will soon be built in Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri West local government area of Imo State.
The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology has recently published a book retracing the history of higher education in Tunisia , entitled "Fiftieth anniversary of the Tunisian University: 1958-2008".
Nobel Prize laureate, Wole Soyinka, has not ceased to amaze his admirers and even critics. In what has become a trade mark of sort, he proved once again that certain gestures, which may thrill some others hardly, excite him. Last week, he rejected a street named after him by the Federal Government, insisting that unless a street named after former military Head of State, Sani Abacha was changed, ...
The country's highest institution of learning, the University of The Gambia (UTG), has issued a strong call for playwrights, novelists and poets to send in their literary works as it prepares to launch the 'Chancellor's Literary Award.'
