by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 22, 2020 | Gist Corner
Booker Prize winner, Bernardine Evaristo, has become the first black woman to be appointed as the President of Rose Brufold College. Bernardine Evaristo, who graduated from Rose Bruford in1982, said, “I think it’s really good to have a black woman as the head of a...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 22, 2020 | Gist Corner
Masande Ntshanga has released his third novel titled, Native Life in the Third Millennium. Speaking of his book in an interview with Blacklight Media, Ntshanga describes his latest novel as “an experimental chapbook, a hybrid collection of interlinking poetry and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 16, 2020 | Gist Corner
Photo sources: biography.com and ktravula.com Professor Wole Soyinka’s third novel, Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth, will be published by Bloomsbury and Pantheon. In a report made by The Bookseller, Bloomsbury acquired UK and Commonwealth...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 15, 2020 | Gist Corner
Photo credit: ew.com Since the publication of their debut novel in 2018, Akwaeke Emezi has been gracing the literary scene with elegant books. In 2019 they published their young adult book, Pet. This year they published their third...
by Ifeanyi Ekpunobi | Dec 2, 2020 | Gist Corner
Frances Ogamba’s unpublished story, “My Husband’s Wife”, is the winning story for the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Competition.To celebrate its official launch, Collection Kalahari organized a short story competition open to all writers using Swahili, French or...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Nov 13, 2020 | Gist Corner
1. Uzodinma Iweala born on the 5th of November, 1982 Image: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. My dad said to me: “You’ve done a great job, but don’t get too high on being the youngest this or the youngest that because someone somewhere will do...
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