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Tribute: David Lacey, the greatest football correspondent ever to write in English

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David Lacey, who died earlier this month at age 83, leaves an imposing legacy: his writing is the standard by which every football journalist will forever be judged

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Nobel prize honours a self-effacing and unassuming talent

Friday -
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels

Review: Biodun Olumuyiwa’s ‘In a Journey of Dreams’ is both timely and timeless

Friday -
Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection

Garuba finds his ‘port of death’

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One of Nigeria’s greatest poets has died. ‘I sing for you brother, teacher, poet, prophet’

Transformation began 50 years ago

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The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya

Things Fall Apart turns 60

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The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales

‘For 30 years, I kept running’

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Harry Garuba wrote his first collection of poems in 1982. It’s taken him 35 years to do a second

Vile stain of racism taints the US

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It’s not surprising that the country has still not 
rid itself of its violent and racial bigotry

Another Nigerian star emerges

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Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel

Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 30 years later

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With her intricate writing of physical suffering and supernatural torment, Toni Morrison vividly paints the pain of slavery

Post-colonial universities are trapped by their past

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Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation

Cry, Nigeria, my beloved country

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That a country so blessed with abundance can so cruelly betray its poor and vulnerable is nothing short of a tragedy
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