by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Aug 16, 2021 | Gist Corner
Submissions are open for the 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize. The prize, which started in 2021 with the aim of increasing opportunities for women writers in Nigeria, was launched by The Society for the Promotion, Revitalization, and Improvement of New Nigerian...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Aug 16, 2021 | Gist Corner
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the headliner for 2021 the Ake Arts & Book Festival. The festival organizers announced this view their Twitter handle. This year’s festival which will be happening in Lagos from October 28-30 is themed...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Aug 16, 2021 | Gist Corner
Kwame Dawes’s African Poetry Digital Portal has received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant. The grant comes with a three-year grant of $750,000 for the next phase of the project: “expanding research and scholarship relating to African poetry and joining with other...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Aug 16, 2021 | Gist Corner
Akwaeke Emezi’s second YA novel, Bitter, is forthcoming in February 2022. The novel is prequel to their debut YA novel, Pet (2018). Here is a synopsis from the novel: ”From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Aug 16, 2021 | Gist Corner
This month, to mark its 2021 August break schedule, Narrative Landscape Press will be publishing six Nigerian editions of books by some African authors. Here are the list of books they will be publishing: The Nigerian editions of Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi...
by Anthony Dim | Aug 9, 2021 | Gist Corner
While news of Chimamanda Adichie´s calling out a catholic priest in her home town of Abba still makes the rounds on social media, she has recently appeared at the book launch of the retired Cardinal Archbshop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan. “I just want to say how...
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