We at the TVO tribesmen community know how to appreciate fine things, especially fine literature. We also know how to celebrate people. As part of the activities marking Wole Soyinka’s 86th birthday, we decide to write 86 eulogies for him. Here’s what a tribesman had to say about Wole Soyinka…
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Wole Soyinka has proven to Africa and the world that art is not for any one people, and the command of language is not for any one person or group of persons..
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Ghana Must Go is the first full length novel of British American, Taiye Selasi. Selasi has Nigerian-Ghanaian origins and currently lives in Rome…
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Nnedi Okorafor is simply genius! She is is a Nigerian-American award winning novelist of African based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism…
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We have compiled the most amazing opportunities available for African writers, it would be nice to apply for one of them or as many as possible. ANFASA Grant Scheme Scheme for Authors 2020 Application Deadline: July 31st , 2020. Details: Applications call for ANFASA Grant Scheme Scheme for Authors 2020 ANFASA, the Academic and Non-Fiction
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The hairdresser of Harare is a book that is sweet, sentimental and yet daring for its setting. Written by Tendai Huchu, a Zimbabwean, who currently lives in Edinburgh, it is a beautiful book that leaves the reader thinking….
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There are a lot of books by African authors to be released but we have selected the top three guaranteed to leave you panting and wanting for more. Enjoy, in anticipation.
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Second- Class citizen was written by Nigerian author, Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, better known as BuchiEmecheta. Most people are familiar with her book, The Joys of Motherhood. The novel was originally published in London in 1974 and was published the following year in the USA. The book may be called a novella as it has 174 pages. It is often regarded as a semi-autobiographical work and was later published in one volume, together with the author’s other book, The Bride Price.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born to a middle-class Igbo family in Enugu. She discovered her gift, drove it with passion till she possessed an opulence in vocabulary that has made her a merchant in her own field.
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