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NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022 shortlist announced.

The longlist for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022, the richest on the continent, has been announced today, Friday, August 26, 2022. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG, was started to honour Nigerian authors in the four genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature in 2004. The prize […]

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Festivals Nigeria

Benue Book and Arts festival 2019 for Makurdi, Nigeria in June.

The Benue Book and Arts festival 2019 is scheduled to take place in Makurdi, the capital city of Benue State in Nigeria from June 20-22, 2019. The theme of the festival will be “Changing Narratives.” The Benue Book and Arts festival, directed by Su’eddie Vershima Agema, is an initiative of the Sevhage Literary & Development […]

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Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018 longlist announced.

The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018 longlist has been announced with nine poets in the running. The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, worth US$10,000, is awarded every two years to the best book written by an African in any of the literary genres. Previous winners of the prize include Sefi Atta for Everything Good […]

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Festivals Nigeria

Sevhage Literary Festival 2015 for Makurdi, Nigeria

Another day, another African literary festival. This time round the host is Makurdi the capital of the state Benue in Nigeria and the festival is the Sevhage Literary Festival. The Sevhage Literary Festival is organised by the Sevhage Imprint of Vershage Publishers. These are also the folks behind Sevhage Reviews that publication we all love […]

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Africa’s Largest Authors Association holds annual Convention

Author Richard Ali gives us a run down of the Association of Nigerian Authors convention that ended last weekend. Africa’s largest national authors Association, the Association of Nigerian Authors, concluded its 33rd Convention on Saturday 13th December 2014. The annual three-day write-fest was held at the historical city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, formerly Africa’s […]