Tag: Clinical Blues
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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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Dami Ajayi’s Ghanaian adventure
Dami Ajayi is a very special fellow. By day he is known as Dr Ajayi the trainee psychiatrist who ensures that patients get the best mental care that a doctor can give. By night, however, this Nigerian man turns into Dami Ajayi, poet, literary magazine founder, and editor. His poetry collection Clinical Blues is one…
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Abuja Literary Society hosts Dami Ajayi and Patrick Oguejiofor
The Abuja Literary Society (ALS) is an organisation that brings people who have a love of all things literary to the capital of Nigeria. The organisation hosts a series of events every month to bring together including a Book Jam and a book club. The Book Jam which is hosted on the last Friday of…
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Nigeria’s Kate Ekanem to unleash debut novel at Authors Talk Lagos
Kate Ekanem is a writer who started writing at the age of five and by age eighteen, the girl child activist, had started an initiative called The Kate Tales Foundation. It advocates for girl child education, curates art exhibitions, and supports emerging writer’s development and women’s empowerment. Malala who? The Foundation will be hosting the…