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Quramo invites entries for 2020 Writers’ Prize
NEW and emerging writers interested in submitting entries for the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2020 have until July 30 to do so.
The Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) for fiction celebrates unpublished writers working to hone their craft and record…
‘I knew I was going to write a book right in kidnappers’ den’
Former staff at Shell and publisher of a community newspaper in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Folarin Banigbe was abducted from his home in May 2016. Unlike some others, he lives to tell the story in his memoir, ‘Abduction Chronicles’. He…
‘She was our Queen of Arts’
Culture programmer and protegee of the late soprano and arts patron, Mrs Francesca Yetunde Emanuel who passed recently, Tope Babayemi, relives shared moments with her.
THIS must be the most difficult tribute that I have ever had to…
World Book Day: Associations hail role of books in national development
FIVE key associations in Nigeria’s book industry have hailed the contributions of books to knowledge systems and national development.
In a statement to mark the 2020 World Book Day with the theme ‘READ, Grow Wings and Travel’, five of…
Farewell, Othello’s Countryman
Professor Niyi Osundare, pays tribute to foremost scholar and leading literary figure, the eminent Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones who passed recently.
I met Eldred Jones personally for the first time in 1982 under a…
Nothing surpasses joy of writing —Okediran
Writer, physician, politician and debut film producer, Dr Wale Okediran will clock 65 on April 14. He has a new novel, ‘Madagali’ to mark the occasion and speaks about it as well as his other literary engagements in this interview.…
Talking music, Ifa, art with Lekan Babalola
The two-time Grammy award winner and drummer is an interviewer’s delight. He shares about his life and music during his recent vacation in Nigeria.
WE did it in the cemetery. That is the interview with Lekan Babalola. But it…
COVID-19: Torrid time for artists, arts
The coronavirus pandemic is causing lots of distress in the arts and among artists as more events are cancelled across the country
THE message from the ‘Chief Warder’, Architect Theo Lawson was stark. “So, at 7.30 pm tonight, Wednesday…
Night Phyno wowed at TRACE Live
TALENTED rapper and singer, Phyno (AzubuikeChibuzo Nelson), sent Terra Kulture Arena, Victoria Island agog on Thursday, March 19 during the TRACE Live event
During the show themed ‘Deal with it’, the actor and performer thoroughly…
COVID-19: Two Soyinka events postponed indefinitely
THE rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused art events including the 2020 iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival (IREP) and Point of View 6 of the Ben Enwonwu Foundation to be postponed indefinitely, has also affected two…