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Idowu Omoyele
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Tribute: David Lacey, the greatest football correspondent ever to write in English
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
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
Biodun Olumuyiwa has been writing since the late 1980s, but has only recently published his debut poetry collection
Garuba finds his ‘port of death’
One of Nigeria’s greatest poets has died. ‘I sing for you brother, teacher, poet, prophet’
Transformation began 50 years ago
The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya
Things Fall Apart turns 60
The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales
‘For 30 years, I kept running’
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
It’s not surprising that the country has still not rid itself of its violent and racial bigotry
Another Nigerian star emerges
Ayòbámi Adébáyò summons Yoruba folklore and a longstanding literary tradition in her debut novel
Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 30 years later
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
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
That a country so blessed with abundance can so cruelly betray its poor and vulnerable is nothing short of a tragedy
​Cry, Nigeria, my beloved country
That a country so blessed with abundance can so cruelly betray its poor and vulnerable is nothing short of a tragedy.
Arrested decolonisation, season 4
Transformation is the inclusion of African and other knowledge with Western thought
Primo Levi’s legacy 70 years on
‘If This Is a Man’ explores humanity’s inhumanity and the ability to endure unimaginable horrors.