Cordite Books, an imprint of Lagos, Nigeria based Parrésia Publishers Ltd, is calling on African writers of quality Crime Fiction to submit manuscripts. The winning manuscript will be published by Cordite Books and will receive a US$1,000 prize. Edited by award winning author, Helon Habila, Cordite intends to tap into a growing market for spy […]
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Nigerian Writers Series Calls for Submissions
August 17, 2013 
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The Association of Nigerian Authors hereby calls for submissions for its new publishing intervention, the Nigerian Writers Series. It would be recalled that the Association received a grant of N10,000,000 from the Chief Servant of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, for the purpose. The Nigerian Writers Series will be modelled as a traditional-style publishing […]
Continue reading Wole Soyinka Prize For Literature launches call for entries
August 17, 2013 3 Comments
The board of trustees for the biennial Wole Soyinka Prize For Literature In Africa has called for entries for the 2014 edition of the Literature Award. At a press briefing heralding the entry submission in Lagos, the Chairman of The Lumina Foundation and Board of the Wole Soyinka Prize Trustees, Mrs. Francesca Yetunde Emanuel said […]
Continue reading Spoken Word Poetry: My name, my identity
August 4, 2013 1 Comment
by Femi Amogunla The thematic focus of this poem is the beauty of Yoruba/African culture as captured in the significance of a name, of my name. An African traditional name is more than just a name; it is more than just something we are called by or something that differentiates us from another. In fact, […]
Continue reading Call for submissions: The African Street Writer presents ‘KOLA Magazine’
August 1, 2013 9 Comments
As part of our strategy to effectively promote African literature and arts, we are working to build a good fan base which will read and respond to what we are promoting. We are thus creating ways to introduce the children and youths to African literature. KOLA Awards is an idea to bring children to the […]
Continue reading Book Review: “Your Right To Write”
August 1, 2013 0 Comments
by Alao Idris Ibrahim Writing seems an off-putting task that many parry even among students of higher institutions. Yet, the curriculum requires that they write if only for assessment purposes. Reading improves one’s writing a great deal but unfortunately, good reading culture is gradually going into extinction among young people of school age. The latest […]
Continue reading The Dead Must Be Sobbing
August 1, 2013 0 Comments
Ndaba Sibanda is pleased to announce that you can purchase The Dead Must Be Sobbing is online NOW so be the FIRST to receive it the moment it’s released. Set in Zimbabwe and South Africa, ‘The Dead Must Be Sobbing’ is a culmination of no holds barred poems spanning over a period of five years. […]
Continue reading Interpreters of the gods
August 1, 2013 1 Comment
By Echezonachukwu Nduka These carved woods breed emotions In these sordid scenes, they parade their unseen powers And feed our senses with dashed hopes White feathers rest on their rigid bodies, Smeared blood boosts their ego Today, we raise songs not for their prowess, But for want of awful oblations Tie me not to you, […]
Continue reading Reflections from the womb
August 1, 2013 0 Comments
By Dejavu Tafari I remember- somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind- the place of my abode before I announced my untimely arrival on the physical realm. My descend from Goodness was a time marked by equal measures of excitement and a tentative uncertainty, similar to that of a traveler journeying to unknown […]
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