Arts & Books

This book is undoubtedly one of the most significant publications on academic and social life ever written about Nigeria’s Ivory Towers. It focuses on administrative, academic, security and cultural challenges from the arrival on 18 January, 1948 of the first students of the University College Ibadan to the present day; how Nigeria’s higher institutions, particularly the universities developed in their Read More

The Creative Director of Precious Moment Photography , Precious Anslem, has said pictures can be used to renew hope for change and a better Nigeria. Anslem during his first solo photography exhibition in Abuja, themed; “Dreams and Echoes,” said pictures are also used to showcase the realities on ground through and to advocate for a new Nigeria where we can Read More

  OLUFEMI Oluwole’s autobiography, The Acts of Men, tells the story of a man who is determined to succeed against all odds, and the vehicle through which he achieved his dream is journalism. The author opens the 20-chapter book with an article he wrote in the Punch Newspaper on October 11, 2005, entitled, ‘Indigeneship by Birth and Elections,’ when he Read More

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has commended the United States for the repatriation to Nigeria of 23 Benin Bronzes, part of the thousands of artifacts that were looted by the British during their invasion of Benin Kingdom in 1897. A statement by the minister’s media aide Segun Adeyemi on Tuesday, the Minister gave the commendation at Read More

There are various affront messages this poet passes across. The fabric of words do distills the message in a way a reader seems to decipher it to their satisfaction. A poet as a being entails the power-message of creativeness to glue hope in the lost hope as a pivotal ladder of coming to the father. According to John 14:6: “No Read More

On September 13, 2018, Alhaji Yusuf Magaji Bichi, fwc, was appointed the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) also known as Department of State Services (DSS) for a four year (renewable) term. He was recalled from retirement to hold this position. He retired in 2016 after attaining the statutory age in active service. That he was found worthy Read More

Book:              Between Survival and Annihilation Author:            Clement Oluwole Publisher:        n/a Year:               2021 Pages:              128 Clement Oluwole’s 128-page novel is a story of misfortune and mishap. It is driven by a sustained suspense marked by intrigues that can make a reader sit at the edge of their seat. The story’s capacity to arrest a reader, in Read More

Two writers of African origin are on the longlist of 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The writers are Noor Naga from Egypt and Eloghosa Osunde from Nigeria. While Naga was longlisted for his “If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English”, Osunde is on the longlist for “Vagabonds!”. The prize, first awarded in 2006, honours the best debut fiction of Read More

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel “Glory” is one of six novels on the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist. Although the shortlist is diverse in terms of nationality and gender, Bulawayo is the only Black woman on the list. Through her vivid storytelling and playful language, Bulawayo took out many strong competitors present in the longlist including Hernan Diaz, Read More

The 2022 edition of Kaduna Book and Arts Festival is billed to begin in the third week of September. The festival is a brainchild of the Book Buzz Foundation, which also organizes the Ake festival, in collaboration with the Kaduna State Government and Sterling Bank. It is the largest art and literary event in Northern Nigeria, and annually converges art Read More

AWAAL GATA interviews Tares Oburumu on his winning of this year’s Sillerman Prize for poetry. How did you feel when it was announced that you were the winner of the Sillerman Prize? I felt happy, but not in the sense of the ordinary; not that common expression of joy. I bestride, now, two worlds: the droopy and that of fulfillment. Read More

Technical writing is a type of writing where the author writes about a particular subject that requires direction, instruction, or explanation. It involves straightforward, easy-to-understand explanations of and instructions for a particular subject. Leveraging the internet, the industry is growing fast in Nigeria and downsizing the country’s rate of unemployment. AWAAL GATA had an encounter with Daud Sulaimon Abiola, one of Read More

Adimora-Ezeigbo set to headline James Currey Literary Festival at Oxford A frontline author and professor of African Literature, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, is among the literary czars expected to headline the inaugural James Currey Literary Festival coming up in September at the University of Oxford. Others are Bloomsbury publisher, Alexandra Pringle; Britain’s first ‘black’ female book publisher, Margaret Busby; and the eminent Read More

Chinelo Okparanta’s hotly-anticipated new novel, her first in more than half a decade, will be published by Mariner Books on July 12. The novel, titled “Harry Sylvester Bird”, follows “a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America” as he journeys across cities, confronting notions of race and racism and coming to terms with his own privilege. The exciting Read More

Ubara Obaro is a Nigerian writer and a compere, and in this interview with BENJAMIN UMUTEME, Obaro talks about his yet to be published book ‘Burnt Lips’  and how its succinctly captures the struggles in the life of an everyday Nigerian. Excerpts! Tell us, who is Ubara Obaro and what inspired your book? Ubara Obaro is a bag of potentials Read More