THE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS CONSTITUTION 2012
Association of Nigerian Authors Okay, it’s been what we have been asking for since forever!! Finally, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) National have released a copy of the ogbonge constitution...
View ArticlePOST-DILUVIAN SCRIBBLES (A Poem) by Okwy Obu
(For Su’eddie) they have receded now dark diluvian dirges which fondled homesteads caressed pregnant fields leaving handprints of painthey have receded now the exiles are back to wrecked hovels the...
View ArticleABSENCE (A poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
At certain moments I clutch at the physical but catch space gone times beckoning as memories become shadows widows of better times when touch was special… when whispers were the essence words now...
View ArticleTALES IN MEMORIES, THE LYRICS OF THOUGHTS: IN LIEU OF AN EXPLORATION OF...
By Su’eddie Vershima AGEMA The name Hyginus Ekwuazi is no longer strange in poetic circles. He has made a mark on the Nigerian poetry scene with more than three books of poetry published already. A...
View ArticleSEXUAL DEPOSITS by OLISAKWE UKAMAKA EVELYN
(A True Life Narrative by Olisakwe Ukamaka Evelyn) As a new employee in Ecobank back in 2008, we were given targets from the Head Office – to ‘get’ deposits, like they were hanging on trees and all...
View ArticleHOW TO BE A NIGERIAN MECHANIC BY ElNathan John
Life is nothing without you. People may run away from you, despise you, but in their hearts they know, they need you. You are the one who saves the day: the woman stranded with an overheated car in a...
View ArticleHOW TO BE A NIGERIAN WRITER by Elnathan John
Writer’s Stop (Photo credit: Stephh922) You know the value of books. The process of making them intrigues you. You want your name on the front cover of a book and, like an earthworm inches through...
View ArticleMUST ATTEND: VICTOR EHIKHAMENOR AND MAIK NWOSU BOOK n GUAGE (15th December 2012)
C’mon, you’ve gotta be kidding me!! It’s Lagos once more and on the 15th December, 2012 the Pulpfaction club does it big!! Adding three digits to the date, they are ready to give their 18th Edition of...
View ArticleCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY ON SELFLESS SERVICE AND LOVE OF COUNTRY
A new collection of poetry seeks to celebrate Jahman Anikulapo at 50! We welcome poems from any writer who has been touched or inspired by the dedication of Mr Anikulapo to the Arts… Jahman Anikulapo...
View ArticleAWAITING (A Short Story) – Su’eddie Vershima Agema
Oche had been in this position before, was a very confident man and was therefore prepared. He had faced several circumstances so though this was new in its own right, he remained calm. He even thought...
View ArticleCALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE AFRICAN STREET WRITER
January’s Theme>>> “Africa: The Art of Building It” Highlighting the fact that The African Street Writer (TASW) is an African Ideology for Africans, our choice of first theme is amassed around...
View ArticleAmidst the dark visage
Reblogged from charlesbassey's fragments: This morning I awoke To the voices of yesterday, The disposition and the flair, The striving and the settled. They all sang one melody: Amidst the dark visage...
View ArticleTHE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF AN UNANSWERED PRAYER (A Poem) by Hyginus Ekwuazi
[for George Egbuchulam] The oxygen mask the tubes the tapes the poles and all those sachets of healing fluids dangling and dripping from them and the pain and the pain— your hand, gripping...
View ArticleFRESH NIGERIAN GRIOTS (INTERVIEW 1): HYGINUS EKWUAZI
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION: Dr. Hyginus Ekwuazi is a lecturer with the Theatre Arts Department in the University...
View ArticleIT WASN’T YOU, IT WAS ME (An Extempore Poem) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema
( for yesterday…) It wasn’t you It was me. It wasn’t that you were late. It’s just you made convenience expire. I would have stayed forever to wait You know, simply to catch the beauty of you even...
View ArticleIN YOUR HONOUR (A Poem) by Okwy Obu
FOR SU’EDDIE VERSHIMA AGEMA the lord’s day the smell of rain from ricardo’s jos tingles our nostrils no moisture in sight the sun shines on there is dust today just as before the a.c. is mute we make...
View ArticleCALL FOR (SUBMISSIONS) POEMS CELEBRATING NIGERIA AT 100
Straining at the Seams: Poems for Nigeria at 100 Edited by Kabura Zakama Kairos Productions is pleased to invite submissions from poets for publication in an anthology titled Straining at the Seams:...
View ArticleA PORTRAIT OF THE NIGERIAN POET by Hyginus Ekwuazi
ONE of the enduring memories of Peter Pan’s How to be a Nigerian is, for me, his fascinating sketch of the Nigerian radical. If the Nigerian poet had been roaming the streets at the time the book was...
View ArticleKenechi Uzochukwu apologises: “My article was insensitive and has hurt many”
by Kenechi Uzochukwu I wish to apologise to those hurt by my recent articles on rape published on Ynaija website. Even though the articles were against rape I admit that it was insensitive and has hurt...
View ArticleCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL WORKS ON QUENTIN TARANTINO’S MOVIES!
Okay, now how many of you have watched a Quentin Tarantino movie? Of course, yes, you… or even if you haven’t, here’s a chance to have a critical work of yours published. Destructive Praise, a...
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