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My relationship with grammar

I love grammar. I hate grammar. My relationship with grammar is like my love-hate relationship with Lagos. I love it - the people,
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Macmillan holds youth literary day

The sixth edition of Macmillan's Youth Literary Day will hold on Tuesday, May 31 at the Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos. The event...
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Ndidi Enenmor :‘I have no regrets being a writer’

“I simply love writing, especially for children. I derive a lot of pleasure from it,” begins Ndidi Enenmor. “It is so easy for...
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Kiagbodo

Poet and playwright J.P. Clark’s falling-out with his would-be official biographer, Adewale Maja-Pearce, is chronicled in the latter’s new book, ‘A Peculiar Tragedy’. We begin...

MADAM POURQUOI:Phonetically yours

One of the first things that you learn in French, as with...

Omatseye: Back with a bang

Sam Omatseye has something good cooking. Barely a year after he presented two...

Jalaa writers showcase novel worlds

Writers of the Jalaa Collective, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Odili Ujubuonu, and Jude Dibia read...

Birthday celebrations for Femi Osofisan

The 65th birthday of renowned playwright, Femi Osofisan, will be marked with...

EMAIL FROM AMERICA: On Teju Cole’s ‘Debut Novel’

Teju Cole has just written ‘Open City’, a brainy book that is...

Walks with Julius: Teju Cole’s ‘Open City’

Teju Cole’s enigmatic new book ‘Open City’ is truly unusual. Imagine a...

Positioning children as the future

Growth, change and development were the key words of the sixth Macmillan...

Chioma Okereke’s Bitter Leaf

After a build-up of many months including a shortlisting for the Commonwealth...

Irele’s labyrinths of textual meaning

Though not a contest, scholars struggled to outdo one another on Thursday,...

Twinkle, twinkle, bright stars

When the United Nations brought leaders from all over the world to New York, to its Millenniums Summit in September 2000, the socio-economic problems of...

Sola Alamutu restores the rainforest

Sola Alamutu is the brain behind Children and the Environment (CATE), an organisation that is helping to create awareness in children about the importance of...

Macmillan holds youth literary day

The sixth edition of Macmillan's Youth Literary Day will hold on...

Yemi Sanusi: medical writer

Writing has always been a part of Yemi Sanusi, a medical doctor and writer. She cultivated the habit early in life when she wrote essays...

Books for Little Saints

As part of its ‘Give a Child a Book’ initiative to promote...

‘People buy books but don’t read them’

The call for improvement in the reading culture of Nigerians has again...