by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Now in it’s ninth year, the 2021 Ake Arts and Book Festival theme for this year has been tagged “Generational Discordance.” Here is a statement by the organizers: “From relationships, love and marriage, spirituality and religion, gender and feminism to politics and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Petina Gappah has been selected as one of the judges for the International Booker Prize 2022. This year’s panel will be chaired by the translator, Frank Wynne. The panel consists of author and academic Merve Emre; writer and lawyer Petina Gappah; TV presenter, writer...
by Oreoluwa Oladimeji | Jul 16, 2021 | Fiction
1. Present Day On my wedding day, my skin twitches as my fiancé’s hands encircle mine. I superimpose another man’s hands over his. Pastor Jide, the officiating minister, bellows, “If anyone has any objection to this marriage, speak now or forever hold your...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
The Ivan Juritz Prize, which comes with a cash prize of £1,000 for three categories in Text, Sound, and Visual Arts, is awarded to a postgraduate students throughout Europe either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses. Students are invited to...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jul 14, 2021 | Gist Corner
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel, Glory, is going to be published by Viking on March 8, 2022. The book, according to the publishers, is a “blockbuster novel about the fall of an oppressive regime and the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily...
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