ON THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE REUNION AND 5-YEAR $100 MILLION ENDOWMENT FUND.
Day 3 (Alumni General Meeting – cont’d): Wole Olaoye on Role of Alumni in University Development:

The Midmorning Session was opened by Mr. Wole Olaoye, President, Nigerian Chapter, Great Ife Alumni Association, who gave a simple but very thought provoking call, when he spoke on [...]

Sade won the Best First Book Commonwealth award for Africa Region in the 2008.

Author of “Meji” - an African based fantasy novel - writes African/Yoruba-based fantasy and science fiction.

A new Nigerian American voice in young adult fiction; Okarafor thrives in a realm of African Fantasy.

The Gambian-born writer took up writing at 35 and it took four years to get her first book contract.

Cyprian Ekwensi popular and prolific Nigerian fictional writer/poet dies at 86.

Book: “888 Days in Biafra”. Author: Samuel Enadeghe Umweni. Reviewer Nosa omogui.
via Omogui.com:
The Book, “888 Days in Biafra”, is a memoir of the author’s experience from abduction to release. The cover is well designed. A Biafran “rising sun” from the now defunct Biafran flag is depicted with concertina prison wires within which the outlines of [...]

Early morning discussion with controversial author of “Supposing I wanted to Date a White Guy?”, Halima Sal-Anderson.

Wole Oguntokun, playwright and one of the authors on AfricanLoft presents “A Season of Soyinka” - a series of plays marking the 73th birthday of the Nobel Laurette Wole Soyinka.

Photo: Casts doing some pre-performance runs before stepping unto the stage.
Catch the action of the month-long event on Laspapi blog: Season of [...]

Ousmane Sembene, the African literary and film icon passed away this past weekend (June 9) in Dakar, Senegal.
For a complete biography of the legacy that he has left behind please click here http://www.ousmanesembene.com/ and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne