Posts from Olongo Africa
Our Twittering Space
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 […]
The Raft, the Rift and the Reconciliation
Download as PDFOne of the iconic photographs in Nigerian literature shows the poet John Pepper “J.P.” Clark Bekederemo – together with the novelist Chinua Achebe and the playwright Wole Soyinka – going to visit the military dictator Ibrahim Babangida sometime in 1986. Their mission was to plead for the life of Mamman Vatsa, a military […]
A House for Mr. Soyinka
If the estate's location deep in the bush inconvenienced his visitors, he clearly delighted in their discomfort.
