How I write

People who write for money soon get disappointed – Bankole Tukuru
By SEGUN AJAYI
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Trained as a documentarist at the university, it was not a surprise that Bankole Anthony Tukuru ended up a biographer. Although he was drafted to sustain the family legacy in the financial sector as a young graduate, his passion for writing did not wane. That explains why after a stint with the stock-broking business, he returned to his first love, writing. Today, Bankole has four published works in his name. | Read Story

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ANA gets literary prize for James Ene Henshaw
By SEGUN AJAYI
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Unarguably, he was the first Nigerian to write full length plays in the 1950s and 1960s. The late James Ene Henshaw, who died in August, last year, still lives on in the hearts of many who savoured his works. For the late Henshaw, a medical doctor who strayed into playwriting, last pen-ultimate Saturday was another milestone in the family’s bid to immortalize him and sustain his literary legacies. | Read Story


Some emotions are so intense that only poetry can capture the feeling –Prof. Harry Garuba
By SOLA BALOGUN
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Like many of his fellow scholars who left the shores of Nigeria for brighter prospects overseas during the Abacha days, Professor Harry Garuba could not resist the offer in South Africa in the 1990s. despite the highly stimulating intellectual environment at Nigeria’s premier university (University of Ibadan) Garuba who was senior lectuer in the English Department was fed up with the days of Sani Abacha which turned the country into a cesspit of dictatorship. | Read Story
 

Midnight quietude gives me the best words
U.S-based AbdulRasheed Na’Allah
By NWAGBO NNENYELIKE, Ilorin
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Professor AbdulRasheed Na’Allah is a Nigerian writer based in the U.S. But as a poet, he is mostly inspired by African oral tradition. He writes more to depict African images. One striking thing about him is that despite the fact that he writes in English, many of his poems are written in Yoruba and Hausa| Read Story


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