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THE EDIFICE. By Kole Omotosho
'Why do couples get married? Or to narrow things down, why do men decide to marry and settle down? Surely love must be a major ingredient, or should be, despite the fact that as time goes on the...
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COMES THE VOYAGER AT LAST. By Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor - the Ghanaian who first took the literary world by storm (before Ayi Kwei Armah); contemporary of the Achebes, Soyinkas, and Ngugis. Essentially renowned for his poetry, he also wrote two...
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ISIDORE OKPEWHO (1941 – 2016)
Okpewho: World class academic and novelistBy I M Soqaga (South Africa) Alas! Africa is now experiencing another melancholic situation with its own wordsmith. Recently it has apparently become usual to...
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SHE NO LONGER WEEPS. By Tsitsi Dangarembga
Strange how when a book is published in Africa (generally) it is rare indeed for it to be celebrated; for scholars, critics reviews etc to focus on the work trenchantly. But one would expect any work...
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(Yemisi Otasanya in her own words)‘My passion for writing started at the age of 8, when out of boredom, I picked up my pencil and wrote my first poem. Daddy was my first audience. May God bless his...
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BEN OKRI'S AWKWARD LAUREL
Ben Okri of course is one of the most outstanding, fecund writers Africa has ever produced - he was still a rather young man when he won the 1991 Booker prize (for his work, The Famished Road). Okri...
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN NOVEL. By Eustace Palmer
For me, it has always been a crying shame that relatively very few African readers - even lovers of creative fiction - appreciate this type of work. Certainly over the decades this book has been...
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JACOMIEN SCHIMPER HONOURED
The highlight of the occasion was the major speech well known literary critic, Mr Pule Lechesa delivered, extolling the vision and goodwill of Mrs Schimper. For good measure he sprinkled his address...
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Better Than Gold A poem by Atinuke Lawal (Obafemi Awolowo University)Precious yellow metalUsed for making ornaments and jewelleryYou are valuable, you are goodBut there is something better than you...
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SORRY YOU'VE BEEN TROUBLED. By O Bolaji
Books reviewed here: Comes the Voyager at last. By Kofi Awoonor.Anatomy of female power. By Chinweizu. Black Man's Dilemma. By Areoye Oyebola. Kossoh Town Boy. By Robert Wellesley Cole.The Edifice. By...
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ADIEU, BUCHI EMECHETA
Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017)- An extraordinary African Woman WriterBy I. M SoqagaAbsolutely, Africa for decades has produced many prodigious and capable writers whose writing fascinates the world...
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OCTOBER. By Zoe Wicomb
'Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left.” Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-five years, Mercia returns to her homeland of South Africa to...
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Adieu, South Africa's first Black female novelist
Miriam Tlali - A Powerful Fascinating Pioneer of African LiteratureBy M. I SoqagaIt is absolutely gruesome to see early pioneers of African literature departing this world rapidly! For the past years...
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BOOK IMMORTALISES PETRUS "WHITEHEAD" MOLEMELA
The legendary Ntate Petrus Molemela (South Africa) is dead - the larger-than-life man associated with the Bloemfontein Celtic football club in Mangaung. Before he died, Charley Pitersen wrote a fine,...
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THE PRIMACY OF THE MOTHER TONGUE
Mother tongue is the language that every child learn to speak firstly when she/he start to speak besides the household of the Africans that their houses English is their first language and in that case...
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ARROW OF GOD. By Chinua Achebe
Literature can often puzzle and startle one, including Africanliterature - the way we receive and criticise books. A good example isGhana's world class writer, Ayi Kwei Armah; the literary world...
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THE MAN DIED: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
It is bizarre to think that a distinguished, world class literary pearl like Soyinka spent years clamped in gaol. But then again, so did other African literary giants like Kofi Awoonor (Ghana), Ngugi...
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THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI'S WIVES. By Lola Shoneyin
Lola Shoneyin's book is one of the most successful and most widely read, received in African literary history (never mind African women's literature). This of course indicates that this work is also...
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