Books

The 11th edition of Ake Art and Book Festival created by Lola Shoneyin with the primary aim to promote, develop, and celebrate the creativity of African writers, poets, and artists, will hold from November 23 to 25, at BON Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

Planning and focus, as keys to achieving one’s dream, highlights the autobiography of Dr Anthony Chukwuka, the executive chairman of Greenlife Pharmaceuticals.

Oyewunmi Olatoye Agunbiade’s The Symptomatic Experience of Master Curio is a thrilling and masterful story that is premised on the technique I call stigma air. Our everyday lived experiences reflect one form of stigma air or the other. In those days when we were much younger, we often tiptoed into our mother’s kitchen in odd…

I Was a Teen Rock Star by A.H. Mohammed is a captivating exploration of the journey from adolescence to adulthood.

The Banquet Hall, Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, was on Sunday September 17, 2023, illuminated with a plethora of cultural displays when the Rainbow Book Club, in conjunction with the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (sponsor of the literary award), celebrated the three playwrights in contention for the 2023 Nigeria Prize for Literature.

The 50 poems in the debut collection, Oceans in Your Lungs, by Zainab Omotayo Raji, have been subtitled under four themes: Love as Flowers, Chaos in the Soil, Pain in Our Roots and Hope as Sun Rays. Each chapter is introduced with a visual art illustration.

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) and the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA) have reiterate commitment to promoting excellence and creativity, and to project outstanding books to Nigerians and the world.

Recently, Ouida Books, Ikeja, hosted a gathering of humanists, which aimed at creating awareness on the need to release incarerated Mubarak Bala, who has been in prison owing to what is considered 'blasphemous posts' on Facebook.

On August 5, 2023, Abasibiangake Essienubong launched her third book, "The Grief Manual” at the event which held at Kokopelli Gallery.

Prominent marketing expert and food blogger, Iquo Ukoh, recently, launched her new cookbook, Memories On A Platter: My Journey with Nigerian Food.

The lawyer Adejoke Adeosun, popularly known as Sisi Caro, has unveiled her first book, Honey and Maggots. The 169-page book on politics, love and nature is armed with a passion for justice and better life for the people.

It is not every time you get rapturous moments from book reading. The recent book party by leading foreign cultural centre in Nigeria, Goethe Institute, on May 27, coincidentally, Nigeria’s Children's Day, was an immersive experience that would not be forgotten in a hurry, as guests were bathed in good music and poetry. The drum ensemble, led by Ayantunji, provided cathartic equivocation of visual and audial performance of literature.