The news of her death at the age of 95 on March 6, 2025, represents another epic loss to the literary community in Nigeria, ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Woodlawn Manor House will be hosting two “Women of Woodlawn” walking tours. Participants can learn about the societal norms ...

Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has said slavery is not yet dead but rife on the African continent. Soyinka made this ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

For Professor Sunday Ododo of the University of Maiduguri, Osundare is a shining star of Nigerian literature. In his own words “as we celebrate the 78th birthday of Professor Niyi Osundare, we honour ...

ShareSays ‘Publishing my first book was an emotional experience’ Nigerian-UK-based writer and literary activist, Nneoma ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.

Professor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...