Tag: Niyi Osundare
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Niyi Osundare wins Boao International Poetry Prize 2022.
Niyi Osundare was celebrated at the Boao International Poetry Prize 2022 in Shanghai, China on December 16, 2022. The Boao International Poetry Festival which brings together poets, critics, and translators from all over the world to celebrate poetry in all its forms has been hosted in China since 2019. It is organized by the Huang…
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Niyi Osundare International Poetry Festival 2022 for June 6.
The Niyi Osundare International Poetry Festival 2022 will be hosted in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria on June 6, 2022. The festival theme is “Pandemic, Lockdown and The Poet.” Niyi Osundare has authored numerous books of poetry, two books of selected poems, four plays, a book of essays, and numerous monographs and articles on literature, language, culture,…
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Niyi Osundare International Poetry Festival 2019 for July.
The Niyi Osundare International Poetry Festival 2019 will be hosted at the University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State on July 15 to 17, 2019. Niyi Osundare has authored 18 books of poetry, two books of selected poems, four plays, a book of essays, and numerous monographs and articles on literature, language, culture, and society.…
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Lagos International Poetry Festival 2018 at end of October.
The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2018 kicks off on October 31 and ends on November 4, 2018 at Freedom Park, Lagos Island. Founded in 2015, the Lagos International Poetry Festival has brought poets, writers, artists, and thinkers from across the world to Lagos for a week of conversations, readings, performances, workshops and adventure, establishing itself…
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Throwback Thursday: The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa
On this edition of Throwback Thursday we focus on The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa which ran from 1980-2009.For many followers of the literary establishment who could be considered to be younger, many believe that publishing in Africa started in 2000. This was the year that Leila Aboulela was awarded the first Caine Prize…
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Lagos Art & Book Festival 2017 date announced #LABAF2017
At the end of a four-day fun-filled “fiesta of Ideas and Life”, the 18th edition of the Lagos Book & art Festival, LABAF adjourned to next year, which would be its 19th edition and focusing on the theme: ERUPTIONS: Global FRACTURES & Collective Humanism”. The 2017 will hold November 9-12 at its traditional home, Freedom…