Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

If it wasn’t obvious enough that the leading poetic voices on the continent now belong to a new generation of writers bred in the jungles of the internet and raised in the angst of 21st-century dilemmas and preoccupations, the new NLNG prize shortlist has made it clearer.

The writer-director, author of Burma Boy, Biyi Bandélé, has passed.

I still remember my ball boy training you have to squat with your left leg simultaneously kneel with your right leg perpendicular to your left so even if you miss the catch the ball is halted by your legs at a 90-degree angle I often missed the catch even before my strokes

Books are markers of a time no longer within reach.

Books that kept us going during this annus horribilis.

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Download as PDFOlongo is the orange-cheeked waxbill, small enough to be missed in a scene, but loud enough to be noticed wherever it is perched. The name had stuck since we first suggested it as the cover for our new floor on the Brick House, a collective of writers and journalists. You are welcome to […]

If the estate's location deep in the bush inconvenienced his visitors, he clearly delighted in their discomfort.