Tag: Okey Ndibe
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Okey Ndibe to chair Caine Prize for African Writing 2022 judging panel.
Okey Ndibe will chair the Caine Prize for African Writing 2022 panel of judges as announced today, May 27, 2022. The others are Elisa Diallo, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, Angela Wachuka, and Àsìkò Okelarin. The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is awarded annually to an African writer published in English for a short story. The prize…
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Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on.
Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on. The poet died from a short illness on Sunday, November 26, 2018. Nigerian poet Ikeogu Oke who studied at the Universities of Ibadan and Nigeria has been known for his collections like Salutes Without Guns, The Tortoise and the Princess, The Lion and the…
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Okey Ndibe brings you the “New African Commentary” journal.
The New African Commentary journal is set to make its debut under Nigerian author Okey Ndibe. The publication will be available on November 16, 2018. In 1989, Chinua Achebe teamed up with a number of Africana writers, intellectuals, and political leaders to found an international magazine, African Commentary. Invoking the lyrics of the great Jamaican…
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Okey Ndibe on six city Nigerian book tour
Okey Ndibe, the writer of some of the most highly regarded books by an African in the last twenty years, is currently on a six-city Nigerian book tour. Okey Ndibe is the writer of three books. Two of them Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods Inc are fiction titles while the third is a memoir…
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Tributes flood in for legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta the author of numerous novels passed away in London, UK on January 25th 2017. Tributes from all over the African literary community have been shared on social media. Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian novelist, based in Britain since 1960,[1] who had also written…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o moderated by Okey Ndibe at Ake Festival 2016
Ake Festival 2016 headliner Ngugi Wa Thiong’o was moderated by Okey Ndibe at the final book type event on November 19th. The headliner event at Ake Festival is where the cover writer for the Ake Review in any given year gets to do their thing. This year Kenyan author, scholar, essayist and generally awesome gentleman…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are…
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Modern African Tales contest launched at World Storytelling Day
A global contest for modern African folk Tales called Re-imagined! was launched at the World Storytelling Day celebrations in Nairobi on Saturday. The contest is curated by Maimouna Jallow. Re-imagined! is a global online storytelling contest inviting African writers, poets, playwrights and journalists to re-invent and update the African folktale for a new millennium. The challenge is…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 5 winding it down
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone. Maimouna Jallow, Prof Niyi Osundare, and Okey Ndibe Chuma Nwokolo and Jonny Steinberg live tweeting the event Nimo Jirdeh moderates Ciku Kimeria Mary Harper moderates Maimouna Jallow Prof Mpalive Msiska, Nadifa Mohamed,…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the third day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 thrills and spills
The action in the hottest literary festival happening right now continued in the biggest city in Somaliland on Monday. We had been enjoying the rich literary offering and world-class friendliness of the people of Hargeisa and it didn’t look like it was changing any time in the near future. There were many panels that we…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 6 ends dramatically
On the closing day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015, a festival that brought people from fourteen countries from around the world together to Hargeisa, there were still panels. The panel on Knowledge Production and Somali studies with Dr Siyam Rayale, Nimo Ali and Yusuf Serunkuma as discussants promised to be engaging. The panel…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 6 ends dramatically
On the closing day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015, a festival that brought people from fourteen countries from around the world together to Hargeisa, there were still panels. The panel on Knowledge Production and Somali studies with Dr Siyam Rayale, Nimo Ali, and Yusuf Serunkuma as discussants promised to be engaging. The panel…