Al Jazeera Digital’s Slow Journalism unit has been awarded Feature of the Year (General) in the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) awards. Al Jazeera won in the feature category for general science reporting, beating co-finalist, The Economist, to win the prize. [...]
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writings on post-colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee at [...]
As he marks his 70th birthday today, renowned essayist, academic and author, Prof. Adebayo Williams, has received glowing tributes from President Muhammadu Buhari. SIMILARLY, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo felicitated with President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Francis Wale [...]
Over the past few weeks, a reading and video of a poem I AM A NIGERIAN has been circulating on social media without attribution. It has been sent to me several times, both in video and in text form as [...]
By Jude Opara A Non-Governmental Organisation, Kids and Play over the weekend in Abuja demonstrated a rare commitment to grassroots sports development when it inaugurated a multimillion Naira sports facility at the Government Secondary School (GSS), Yangoji, Kwali Area Council of [...]
[1] “No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.” [2] “A child’s fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot [...]
Chinua Achebe to be buried May 23 – Governors of the South-East states on Sunday said the burial date of the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe has been fixed for May 23, 2013. Chairman of the forum and Anambra Governor, [...]
Brown University, where foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, worked until his death last night, says it would organize a memorial in honour of one of its most valuable faculty member in history. A statement from the university described the late [...]
Chinua Achebe Is Dead, 16 November 1930 -21 March, 2013 – Nigerian Prolific Writer, Professor Chinua Achebe is reported dead. Hope For Nigeria was informed that the author of ‘Things Fall Apart’, died last night in a privates Hospital in Boston,Massachusetts. Chinua Achebe [...]
In this piece, Chimamanda Adichie extols Chinua Achebe at 82 I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. The first, at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, I joined the admiring circle around him. A gentle-faced man in a wheelchair. “Good [...]
Zinno Orara exhibits: Award winning artist & Nigeria’s most celebrated painters – Award winning artist and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated painters, Zinno Orara on Friday, 5th of December 2014, opened an eight-day exhibition of his works to the delight [...]
A long lost comedy by one of the best known playwrights of 17th century Europe has been rediscovered in the Spanish National Library nearly 400 years after his death, officials said on Wednesday. The discovery of the work by Spanish [...]
The United Nations has devoted Friday, November 15, 2013 to late Professor Chinua Achebe who died last march in Boston, US. Achebe was once a UN Goodwill ambassador from 1999 to 2005. The event holds at Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, [...]
Renowned Nigeria Novel writer Chimamanda Adichie, has been awarded the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. This is the third novel that Nigerian writer will published which title ”AMERICANAH”. According to Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the [...]
Prof. Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts about a decade before I joined the same university in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory. At the time, Achebe’s reputation was still looming large at [...]
Senate on Wednesday eulogised the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, demanding a state burial for him. The renowned author died on March 21 in the United States at the age of 82. Senator representing Anambra Central, Chris Ngige, brought [...]
One of the world’s most powerful women has a lot to say to women who are in love, married or in relationships…From the book “Oprah In her own words” by Tuchy Palmieri….Read and decide if she’s right.. Oprah says… If a man [...]
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