Literary Recap

COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE REVEALS 2020 SHORTLIST The prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English from the commonwealth regions. £2,500 worth of cash goes to each of the regional winners, and a grand sum of £5,000 the overall winnerFirst won by New Zealand’s Emma Martin for Two Girls in a...

Literary News

9th May 2020

Coronadiaries With Saddiq Dzukogi

Ayamba: How are you quarantining? In what ways has your daily routine changed?Saddiq Dzukogi: We have been at it for weeks now. I have exhausted a lot of the movies on Netflix. Now I am not only watching American movies and Nigerian movies, I am also watching films from Bahrain, Turkey. I am surprised at...

Interviews

4th May 2020

Coronadiaries With Kemi

Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu in conversation with Kemi Falodun CONDUCTED IN MAY 2020 Lately, though, I’ve been thinking about desire in isolation, about how solitude shapes us. kemi Falodun Ayamba: Thank you for agreeing to talk to me for this series. The COVID-19 situation and the consequent lockdown have thrown a lot of lives and routines...

Interviews

22nd April 2020

From Fatika with Love

“From Fatika with Love is a book that will last for ages” From Fatika with Love is the kind of story we were told as children about handsome princes and orphaned beauties. Talle’s romance with her prince is like Cinderella without the glass slipper or the evil stepsisters. Written in simple language, it brings the...

Reviews

31st December 2019

Heat

My nostrils take in the cool air in his car as I caress my cheek and listen to the jingle jangle of bangles on my thin wrist. I look at his muscled chest and something coils in me. It stains my skin and burns me to a lulling point of arousal. I want to cuddle...

Submissions

31st December 2019

Of shocks

The Podcaster, Opeyemi Rasak has her bio in the members’ profile section

Audio Podcast

31st December 2019

Happenings

The Podcaster, Nana Sule has her bio in the members’ profile section.

Literary News

8th December 2019

A poem should sing…

Who are the members of the international Poetry regulation board and what are they teaching us? Ayamba: First of all, what led you to poetry? Ajibola Tolase: Love. I was always searching for love and surprisingly, poetry is always calling for love. As easy as that, I was sold. Ayamba: In my experience, the thing...

Interviews

8th December 2019