The role of any writer is to write – The Tolulope Ogunlesi Interview
TOLULOPE GBENGA OGUNLESI could be counted among the few young Nigerian writers heading for the limelight. And how fast he is moving! He became a published poet at the age of 21 (2003) and so far his...
View ArticleSketches – Poems by Abigail George
Sketches (For my paternal grandmother) The disappearance of vanity cannot be erased It serves to improve the quality of this lie The radio is nothing but a vapour, a blur of nothingness. Like phases...
View ArticleAbuja Writers’ Forum August Guest Writer is Bob MajiriOghene
Poet, short story writer and public commentator Bob MajiriOghene will be the major featured writer at the August 25 edition of the Guest Writer Session, an initiative of the Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF),...
View ArticleAbigail George: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer
I don’t want to be cool and for a long time I was experimenting with different voices in my writing. It took me a long time to realise I just had to be myself, comfortable with who I was. I don’t want...
View ArticleNot All Writers Can Be Good and Popular
Let me start by appreciating Professor Austen Bukenya’s stand on the challenges that boggle young African writers’ minds, as recently published in the literature pages of the Saturday Nation. In the...
View ArticlePain at Midnight: Poems by Abigail George
Captive So our rift grows Deeper, widens like the curves Of the spine on my back You fail to surrender To the mercy of my magnificent Words, their imaginary orbit We have become like two Strangers in...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Plight
You think you’re inspired. You pick up a pen and sit you down. You’re excited because the ideas are flowing through your veins – like blood would. Red, as they gallivant through your nervous system....
View ArticleThe Power of Fiction: A Writer’s Journey
When the question is asked: What is fiction? Literary scholars tend to answer by theorizing on the critical ideas that writers use to explain the nature of their work in relation to fiction and...
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