by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Nov 13, 2020 | Gist Corner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been announced as the winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun. This one-off award marks the culmination of the Prize’s year-long 25th anniversary celebrations. Thousands of...
by Miracle Afigbo | Nov 8, 2020 | Gist Corner
Photo credit: Getty Images It can now be said that America has a female vice President. Saturday, 7th November 2020 manifested radiance of vast possibilities in the lives of black women, after all these years of political crimp in the United States. As Senator...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 30, 2020 | Gist Corner
The short story is often seen as an...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 29, 2020 | Gist Corner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has released a new short story titled, “Zikora.” This is her official piece of fiction seven years after her third novel, Americanah. The short story centers on the life of a Nigerian lawyer living in Washington DC who was abandoned by her...
by Sokuma Theophilus | Oct 8, 2020 | Gist Corner
photo credit: cmc.edu On Thursday afternoon, 8th October, the Swedish academy, at a news conference in Stockholm announced Louise Glück as the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual...
by Afreecanread | Oct 5, 2020 | Gist Corner
In commemorating sixty years of Nigeria’s independence from the British Colonial Administration in 1960, we curated a list of books that have formed, and are still shaping the frame of reference about Nigeria; her culture, philosophy, history and people. We cannot...
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