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THE DREAM TICKET FOR 2011 NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION2 comments

babajidesalu wrote 9 hours ago: I got this email from Bayo Olomodosi, my dear brother. Let me let you into a secret, 50% of the joke … more →

Tags: Inspirational, personal thoughts, Amina Az-Zubair, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Buhari, gani fawehinmi, Justice Uwais, Kayode Fayemi, Mallam Balarabe M

Best Time Of My Life - Sponsored By Rolex

Taylor Bright wrote 1 day ago: I’ll admit I hadn’t heard about the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative until this … more →

Tags: Books, Tara June Winch

Imat Akelo-Opio Ugandan Actress and Former Miss Uganda USA: Historical Accomplishment for Africa

missafricablogzine wrote 1 month ago:   Photo by Kipepeo Images Imat Akelo-Opio (Ugandan International Actress and Miss Uganda USA) p … more →

Tags: Miss Uganda USA 2008, Miss Imat Akelo Opio, miss africa, Imat Akelo-Opio, Miss Uganda USA

FILM / NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA1 comment

Sean wrote 1 month ago: “Wole Soyinka: Child of the Forest,” director Akin Omotoso’s documentary film on t … more →

Tags: film, Chimamanda Adichie, Literature, Nigeria, Nobel Prize, Sani Abacha, Teju Cole

Black British Culture in Crisis

chronicleworldorg wrote 1 month ago: By Thomas L. Blair , 11  October 2009 Complacency is the greatest threat to Afro-Caribbean culture i … more →

Tags: 1, Black History, african diaspora, afro-caribbean, Black British clture, Chronicleworld.org, présence africaine, Rex Nettleford, West Indian

East meets West at the Ubud Writers Festival1 comment

Muhammad Cohen wrote 2 months ago: Two years ago, my novel Hong Kong On Air was launched at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in … more →

Tags: Bali, Bali Bombings, Bali bombings 2002, book launches, first novels, first novels of 2007, Hong Kong, Hong Kong On Air, Indonesia

ARE YOU A GENIUS? 3 comments

babajidesalu wrote 2 months ago: Albert Einstein On Wednesday, I read an article from the online Telegraph titled; Fine line between … more →

Tags: Inspirational, personal thoughts, Albert Einstein, Genius, Jide Salu, Madness

17 FAMOUS NIGERIAN QUOTES PLUS 1 NOT SO FAMOUS....

babajidesalu wrote 2 months ago: …counting down to Nigeria’s Independence day 18 QUOTES TO CELEBRATE NIGERIA’S INDE … more →

Tags: Inspirational, personal thoughts, ben okri, Chinua Achebe, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Famous Nigerian quotes, Jide Salu, Obafemi Awolowo

Civilian and Soldier - Wole Soyinka

Jasmin Ramsey wrote 2 months ago: My apparition rose from the fall of lead, Declared, ‘I am a civilian.’ It only served To … more →

Tags: activism, Africa, Literature, Poetry, Civilian and Soldier

Reflections On Prophet TB Joshua At 462 comments

promisecarrier wrote 2 months ago: Reflections on Prophet TB Joshua by the renowned Nigerian journalist, Chiji Okafor, following his di … more →

Tags: Articles, Emmanuel TV, tb joshua, Pastor TB Joshua, Prophet TB Joshua, synagogue church of all nations, Omar al-Bashir, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abramelin the Mage

ARTICLE: How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation's "Leading Black Intellectual"

Khepera wrote 4 months ago: Well, I had said I wasn’t gonna post anything else about Gates….then Prof. Ishmael Reed … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art & Architecture, Culture, Consciousness & Society, Essays & Commentary, Family & Community, News/Info & Analysis, perspectives, Scholarship, Arrest, bell hooks

Obama In Ghana: A Sub-Saharan Sermon

thetbjoshuafanclub wrote 4 months ago: With the recent historic visit of President Obama to Ghana, the relationship between Ghana’s P … more →

Tags: Prophecy, tb joshua, Emmanuel TV, synagogue church of all nations, Enoch Adeboye, Barack Obama, John Atta Mills, Gbenga Daniel, Martin Luther King

The Liberian Literary Tradition

egbailey wrote 5 months ago: “Hi E.G. I was doing a Google search of Liberian comedians and stumbled across your your name … more →

Tags: Writings, News, Liberia, Notre Dame, Melvin B. Tolson, Chinua Achebe, Bai T. Moore, Wilton Sankawulo, Roland Dempster

Literary Birthdays for authors of all kinds: July 12 through 182 comments

litbirthdays wrote 5 months ago: Tweet us today for author birthdays! Sunday July 12 Pablo Neruda (b. 1904) – Chilean poet Cold … more →

Tags: writing, Literature, Authors, Famous Birthdays, Books, famous writers birthdays, poets birthdays, novelist birthday, authors birthdays

Amnesty - real progress, or yet more purposed inertia.

Sokari Ekine wrote 5 months ago: Wole Soyinka makes a public statement on the Niger Delta.  Particularly pertinent is his emphasis on … more →

Tags: .:*Conflict*:., Militants, Nigeria, Niger delta, MEND, MEND, Yar'Adua

WATCH OUT, HARRY P.3 comments

farawaytowns wrote 5 months ago: i received a most exciting package in the mail today. so exciting that i literally let out a scream. … more →

Tags: Travels, Africa, Books, Nadine Gordimer, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Justice Albie Sachs, dr paul farmer, South Africa, International Achievement Summit

how can you match Mugabe's moustache?

Sean wrote 6 months ago: Wole Soyinka, in an interview in The (London) Times” on the “theatricality of politics … more →

Tags: Books, Politics, Barack Obama, Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature, Omar Bashir, Poetry, Robert Mugabe, Sudan

Soyinka on Walcott

toluogunlesi wrote 6 months ago: An interesting interview with Wole Soyinka (by David Aaronovitch), in The Times. Asked about the rec … more →

Tags: Derek Walcott, David Aaronovitch, Ruth Padel, Times Online

Death and the King's Horseman

playwrightinthesecondrow wrote 6 months ago: The second show we saw this weekend was Death and the King’s Horseman, by Wole Soyinka. It was … more →

Tags: Ashland, Death and the King's Horseman, Derrick Lee Weeden, Shaw


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