Wainaina denies leading African lit renaissance but offers tips on how it can succeed - via mobile phone
Book: Poisoned Wells. The Dirty Politics of African Oil
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) will on Friday, November 27, 2009 launch a book titled " Upper End of Marriage-A Happy Home" written by the renowned Dr. Violet Arene of the popular "Kith & Kin" programme the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Family Network Programme.
Former Chief of Army Staff and a leader of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Gen. Alani Akinrinade, has declared that Nigeria is built on a defective foundation and challenged all patriotic minds to summon enough courage to pull it down, with the determination to build a new one.
The Obi of Onitsha, Nnemeka Achebe, yesterday praised Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, as a book which not only consolidated the foundations of Anglophone African literature, but opened a new page in the study of African peoples and culture.
FOR a man in his nineties, T.M. Aluko still has a very alert mind, and he has come up with a new novel that bears benedictory testimony to his venerated craft. Our Born Again President, a 218-page novel of intrigues in the affairs of state, tells the compelling story of David Tanbata who leads his country to independence and later becomes transformed in a Pentecostal manner not unlike the Biblical ...
THE illustrated Things Fall Apart produced in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Chinua's Achebe's classic novel will be the star attraction at a formal presentation ceremony to be held on November 17. The event which will take place in Lagos will be chaired by HRM Igwe Nnaemeka, Obi of Onitsha with renowned playwright, Wole Soyinka being the special guest of honour among other notable ...
THE current re-branding campaign spear-headed by the minister of Information and Communication, Professor Dora Akunyiri, this week received a scholarly boost as a Nigerian born and German-based writer Mr. Emeka Onwuakor unveils his latest book; "This Is Nigeria" to the dossier of the re-branding academic works already in circulation in the country.
The Making of Poverty in South Africa
The American culture is arguably the most profound on the globe because of its diversity. The intensity of this culture is ironically rooted in the history of slavery and subjugation of African-Americans until they were forced to fight back using all means necessary.
"Authors are like children who are starting to walk, some will stand up, fall down and smile but after some time, they will stand up again.
A unique book on the geomorphology of Namibia will be launched at Studio 77 on Thursday, 19 November, at 17H30. Original art works by Christine Marais, which form an integral part of the book will be on exhibition and for sale at the launch.
Book: An Imperfect Offering. Dispatches from the Medical Frontline
Former president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have a problem - white people like them.
Book Title: Winds of Change in South Africa (From Apartheid to Freedom)
