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Issues and people made lucid: A review

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 07 April 2012 06:00; Written by Ramatu Ali Ohioma; Hits: 749

Book: Issues & People

Author: Ramatu Ali Ohioma

Publisher: Ibadan, Kraft Book Publishers, 2011

Volume: 324 pages

Reviewer: Jideofor Adibe

> Issues and people made lucid: A review

Category: Bookshelf Written by Ramatu Ali Ohioma

Book: Issues & People

Author: Ramatu Ali Ohioma

Publisher: Ibadan, Kraft Book Publishers, 2011

Volume: 324 pages

Reviewer: Jideofor Adibe

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 April 2012 06:00

Majority of good reviews are by, about male writers – Study

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:00; Written by Michael Bonnet; Hits: 852

It was the year when VS Naipaul infamously declared no woman writer to be his equal, so perhaps it’s not surprising that new research shows a huge skew towards male authors and reviewers in the literary establishment in 2011. Vida, an American organisation supporting women in the literary arts, has compiled statistics on the gender split in books coverage at publications including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review, each of which showed a substantial bias towards using male reviewers and covering male authors.

> Majority of good reviews are by, about male writers – Study

Category: Bookshelf Written by Michael Bonnet

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:00

S’African store closes as books gather dust

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 14 January 2012 01:00; Written by -; Hits: 1426

South Africa may have produced two Nobel laureates in literature but a famous bookshop in Johannesburg is nevertheless about to close, a victim of the country’s poor reading culture.

> S’African store closes as books gather dust

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South Africa may have produced two Nobel laureates in literature but a famous bookshop in Johannesburg is nevertheless about to close, a victim of the country’s poor reading culture.

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 January 2012 01:00

Ben Okri in row with editor over ‘rewriting’ claim

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:00; Written by Alison Flood; Hits: 936

Okri accuses former editor Robin Robertson of ‘exaggerating his own importance’ after Robertson claimed that he ‘redid’ sections of the author’s dialogue in a 1988 short story collection

> Ben Okri in row with editor over ‘rewriting’ claim

Category: Bookshelf Written by Alison Flood

Okri accuses former editor Robin Robertson of ‘exaggerating his own importance’ after Robertson claimed that he ‘redid’ sections of the author’s dialogue in a 1988 short story collection

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:00

Why I’m supporting ‘Occupy Nigeria’ protests – Achebe

Details: Category: Bookshelf; Created on Saturday, 14 January 2012 01:00; Written by -; Hits: 1543

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has said he supports fuel-subsidy protests and says that unrest can be eased by better, less-corrupt leaders. He currently teaches at Brown University as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies.

> Why I’m supporting ‘Occupy Nigeria’ protests – Achebe