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theguardian.com /1 month ago

Ben Okri: ‘What happens when we die? We don’t die. We change realms’

The Booker prize-winning novelist on the art of lying for a living, the cosmic force of love, and gargling loudlyBorn in Minna, Nigeria, Ben Okri, 67, spent his childhood in Nigeri...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Talking African Storytelling in Berlin with Ben Okri and Ainehi Edoro

One of the highlights of my time in Berlin, this past month, was sharing the stage with Ben Okri for a conversation about books and the power of the imagination. The event was part...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

Ben Okri and Ainehi Edoro Talking African Storytelling in Berlin

One of the highlights of my time in Berlin was sharing the stage with Ben Okri for a conversation that turned into a reading list. The event was part of Afrolution, a festival of...

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brittlepaper.com /4 weeks ago

God Forbid | Somtoo Celestine Ezioha | Fiction

The room smelled of Raid. Okwy had sprayed too much in his bedroom, and the smell had taken over the room, so he picked up his phone and his water bottle and came to the parlour....

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

What the Fallen Seed Knows | Bill Nwonwu | Poetry

The ground does not apologize for its hardness. The seed does not ask permission to split open. I have been buried before — in silence, in refusal, in the mouths of those who mis...

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pmnewsnigeria.com /1 week ago

A consequential peep into Wilderness of Chaos

Blending psychological depth with raw emotion against a stark and unforgiving landscape, it probes themes of resilience, power, identity and the uneasy balance between chaos and pu...

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brittlepaper.com /1 week ago

The African Dream | Uchanma Kama | Poetry

My mother said education is the key. Did she lie? Or was she lied to by those who held the lock and sipped tea? Because all I see doesn’t match what she dreamed. I strive night a...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Zlan É“o (The Creator is Inside the Noise) | Daniel Rightman Badom | Poetry

They looked at our broken concrete, our bullet-pocked brick, our zinc roofs rusted by the salt-wind of the Atlantic, and they asked: Where did the beauty go? They thought the fir...

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writeoutloud.net /1 month ago

THE UNSOLVED

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within yo...

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thisdaylive.com /1 month ago

The Goodluck Of The People Of Oriire

REUBEN ABATI Something almost exactly divine in terms of naming and naming systems in Africa has just been seen in the metonymic correctness of what has just happened in Oriire

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brittlepaper.com /1 week ago

Excerpt: Of Dreams and Quiet Wars: Whispers I Gathered in the Dark by Annabel Sylvester Oromoni

This is Where I Linger Belonging is the weight of my name when it doesn’t stumble in someone else’s mouth. It’s not the walls I grew up with, but the silence between two people...

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

No. 32 Ene Ndem | Anthonia Okokon | Fiction

When I thought of home, I thought of Calabar, of No. 32 Ene Ndem, with its uneven stairwell, chipped at the sides and desperately in need of a second or third coat of mortar. I t...

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thenews-chronicle.com /1 month ago

Old And Odd Gages Unglue Fola from Friends and Home

Without proper papers, you would always be treated as a foreigner; his parents used to caution young Fola. Did the memo hit home in a heavy drop like a deluge? Fola, fact was cloud...

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themarginalian.org /1 month ago

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

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tribune.com.pk /1 month ago

Domestic prisons and gilded cages

David Flusfeder’s Something Might Fall arrives as a compelling reminder of the novella's unique, minimalistic power

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Nigerian-born British poet Inua Ellams’ Once Upon a Time in Sokoto Begins UK Tour This September, Cast Announced

Inua Ellams, the Nigerian-born poet, playwright, and artist behind Barber Shop Chronicles and The 14th Tale, returns to UK stages this autumn with Once Upon a Time in Sokoto, winne...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

Writer Accused of AI Use Wins Commonwealth Prize

Jamir Nazir has won the Commonwealth Prize for his story "The Serpent in the Grove."

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thenews-chronicle.com /1 month ago

Who said Apartheid was conquered and buried forever?

Long way to freedom … Of nuanced echoes of that epic of hope and struggles. But where is freedom or coexistence? Where is dignity? Where is development? Where is democracy? Where?...

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thisdaylive.com /1 week ago

Sen Nwoko, Others in Attendance as Okoboh Launches 4 Books, Website in Abuja

*Author says he was inspired by paucity of academic works Chuks Okocha in Abuja Four new books were unveiled over the weekend in Abuja, adding intellectual and academic works to

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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Liturgy of the Borderline | Joseph Ikhenoba | Poetry

We gathered where the highway ends and the township begins, & watched the crowds pull down shutters heavy with the dust of Hillbrow, & it looked like smoke, or the charre...

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thenews-chronicle.com /1 month ago

What Bold Art Teaches Africans About Migration and Africa

Beautiful art is bold; its pushers and planners are unindoctrinated and unapologetic. In critical and tough issues, they are marinated. They challenge the reader to broach diffic...

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writeoutloud.net /1 month ago

THE PROMISED LAND

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” ...

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thenews-chronicle.com /1 month ago

Wole Soyinka At 92: The Conscience That Refused To Be Silent

Few Nigerians have attained the moral stature, intellectual distinction, and global influence of Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka. Playwright, novelist, poet, essayist...

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themarginalian.org /1 week ago

Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance... To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complica...

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