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Nigeria’s new writers take different path

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 11 June 2011 01:00; Written by Carol Hills; Hits: 1111

If you’re a writer from a developing country, say Nigeria, and you came of age in the 1950s and ’60s, chances are a major theme of your fiction, essays, and poems is politics, colonialism, independence. Think Wole Soyinka or Chinua Achebe. But the younger generation of writers from Nigeria have veered away from politics, and the feeling that they have to somehow represent or fight for their country.

> Nigeria’s new writers take different path

Category: Bookshelf Written by Carol Hills

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 June 2011 01:00

Batman takes on the world with £12m stage extravaganza

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 23 April 2011 01:00; Written by by Sirifo Camara; Hits: 759

Comic-book hero tours with Gotham City sets and a Batmobile. But not, director insists, after Spider-Man’s musical tangle songs.

> Batman takes on the world with £12m stage extravaganza

Category: Bookshelf Written by by Sirifo Camara

Comic-book hero tours with Gotham City sets and a Batmobile. But not, director insists, after Spider-Man’s musical tangle songs.

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2011 01:00

African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:16; Written by -; Hits: 947

Confronting entrenched social inequality and inadequate access to resources, women across Africa are working with determination and imagination to improve their material conditions and to blaze a clear path for their daughters and granddaughters.

> African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

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Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:16

Aya offers glimpse into life of strong, young African woman

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 09 April 2011 02:04; Written by -; Hits: 998

Book title: Aya

Authors: Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

Reviewer: Megan Milks

> Aya offers glimpse into life of strong, young African woman

Category: Bookshelf Written by -

Book title: Aya

Authors: Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

Reviewer: Megan Milks

Last Updated on Saturday, 09 April 2011 02:04

Spider-Man comic sells for over N150m

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 12 March 2011 01:00; Written by Adie Vanessa Offiong, with agency reports; Hits: 474

A comic collector has been caught in Spider-Man’s web, paying $US1.1 million (about N170m) for a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the comic book that features the American super-hero’s 1962 debut. An Associated Press reports says the issue, first published in 1962, was sold on Monday by a private seller to a private buyer.

> Spider-Man comic sells for over N150m

Category: Bookshelf Written by Adie Vanessa Offiong, with agency reports

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 March 2011 01:00