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The Beauty of Creative Writing Dies if Writers Allow Themselves To Be Muzzled To Conform.” Ever Obi (An Interview by Haneefah Abdulrahman)

The Beauty of Creative Writing Dies if Writers Allow Themselves To Be Muzzled To Conform.” Ever Obi (An Interview by Haneefah Abdulrahman)

Ever Obi is a fiction writer and business executive based in the Netherlands. His debut, Men Don’t Die, was published...

Interrogating Nigerian Civil War, plight of minorities in Akpan’s New York, My Village

Interrogating Nigerian Civil War, plight of minorities in Akpan’s New York, My Village

To the author of New York, My Village, Uwen Akpan, the stories of Nigerian Civil war between 1967 and 1970...

Around Akpan’s New York and Village

Around Akpan’s New York and Village

“From his escape from a pro-Biafra Igbo assault in an Atlanta restaurant to his meeting with those who shed tears...

I made a painful decision to leave the priesthood: I was going to be neither a priest nor a writer, says Uwem Akpan

I made a painful decision to leave the priesthood: I was going to be neither a priest nor a writer, says Uwem Akpan

In Ibadan last Saturday, July 5, 2025 Nigeria-America based writer who teaches creative writing at the University of Florida in...

How Achebe, Adichie served injustice to Niger Delta minorities in their writing

How Achebe, Adichie served injustice to Niger Delta minorities in their writing

Writing is not an innocent act. This much Uwem Akpan told his audience at his Ibadan reading on Saturday, July...

The Cracked Screen is here!

The Cracked Screen is here!

For those of my readers with my mobile phone number, this is no news. Because it was up on my...

10 questions: A, I’m a writer, not a speaker

10 questions: A, I’m a writer, not a speaker

If you understand the writer and speaker reference above, then—like me—you’re old. LOL. Or, unlike me, you’re older. Hint: The...

Akin Adesokan's Tribute to Ngugi

Akin Adesokan's Tribute to Ngugi

News of the death of the acclaimed writer and cultural theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on May 28, 2025 broke to...

"I thought the atmosphere was magnificent."

"I thought the atmosphere was magnificent."

“So, you’re the writer,” she says in a tone of casual wonder, but perhaps as an indication that the information...

Biyi Bandele reimagines Ajayi Crowther’s Life in ‘Yoruba Boy Running’: Olukorede S Yishau – The Lagos Review

Biyi Bandele reimagines Ajayi Crowther’s Life in ‘Yoruba Boy Running’: Olukorede S Yishau – The Lagos Review

So many moons ago, Islamic converts known as Malians passed through a town called Osogun on their way to many...