As compiled by reviewers of New Zealand Listener led by the Books & Culture editor,  Guy Somerset. www.listener.co.nz

NOVELS

 

ANCIENT LIGHT, by John Banville (Viking, $37). Revisiting characters from previous novels Eclipse and Shroud...

MY LIFE OF LAW;  Author:  Chief  Badru  Atanda  Olaogun; REVIEWER:  BASHORUN JK RANDLE

BEFORE I proceed to review the book we are launching today (31st December 2012, may I be permitted to congratulate the...

Abacha’s Ghost Roams The Literary Space

Emmanuel Iduma’s first novel Farad, released two months ago, contains extensive passages on the imagined last days of Sanni Abacha, the country’s most despised dictator. The book arrived the market...

* New N1 Critical Essay Prize Announced

IN the last few years, Africa’s biggest literary prize, The Nigeria Prize for Literature, has consistently reinvented itself to meet the yearnings of writers and critics alike. From opening up the prize...

IT baffles how the Nigerian community of writers has suddenly become insensitive to the Nigeria Prize for Literature when in the actual sense, the organisers of the prize are aware of the result of the programmatic damage they have planned for the...

WRITER?of the city lore and author of such famous works as Iska, Burning Grass, Jagua Nana’s Daughter, The Passport of Mallam Ilya and The Drummer Boy, Cyprian Ekwensi, who died in 2007 at age 86, has been immortalised by the Niger State...

SUFFOLK-BASED Nigerian artist Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy has created a vibrant series of paintings which captures the stoic spirit of the people of Nigeria during the days of British colonialism.

Chinwe admits she was surprised at the intensity of her...

Is Soyinka Also Among The Pastors?

 

IN his new book Harmattan Haze On An African Spring, Wole Soyinka forcefully re-examines the injustices associated with slavery and colonialism, condemns policies based on racial difference, scrutinizes the...