When the Seasons Speak Again – A Poem By Bolutife Oluwadele
It wasn’t the first snow, But the heavens opened today With a quieter kind of reverence A reminder that God still turns The pages of the year With the gentlest of hands. No thunder, no trumpet, Just flakes descending like soft scriptures,…
The Unknowing Architect – A Poem By Bolutife Oluwadele
The Unknowing Architect – I built a word of hollow bone, A feather-thought, a whispered tone, And set it sailing, light as air, A harmless ghost, without a care. It found no purchase on the cliff Of your strong mind, so firm and…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Honoured as First Recipient of Germany’s Felix Jud Prize for Defiant Thinking
Celebrated Nigerian novelist and public intellectual Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named the inaugural recipient of the Felix Jud Prize for Defiant Thinking, a distinguished German honour that recognises individuals who embody freedom of expression,…
George Clooney’s Jay Kelly: A Midlife Crisis Drama That Hits Close to Home
It is self-indulgent, this movie. At the Venice Film Festival this week, George Clooney unveiled Jay Kelly, a film that strikes a nerve with actors and audiences alike by confronting the messy, unglamorous terrain of midlife crisis. On the surface, the…
Ibadan Book Festival to Host Dr. Tunde Adegbola in Thought Provoking Conversation
The Ibadan Book and Arts Festival (IbaFest), in collaboration with the NuStreams Conference and Culture Centre, has announced a special pre-festival event titled “The Polymath’s Journey – A Conversation with Dr. Tunde Adegbola on Humanity,…
Declining Reading Culture: Scholars, Writers Rally Ahead of Ibadan Book and Arts Festival
Did you know that 9 out of every 10 Nigerians would prefer to have mobile data to browse the internet than read an interesting book? In spite of the numerous benefits associated with reading, the culture of picking and enjoying a good book has been on…
When Chaos Wears Your Face: A Review of “Twice the Devil”
In Twice the Devil, Fortune Omosola delivers a novel that reads like a smouldering ember, quiet at first, then suddenly flaring into a blaze that refuses to die. Set against the churning backdrop of contemporary Nigeria, the book is an unflinching…
Ibadan Book and Arts Festival to Host Niyi Osundare in Special Literary Prelude
The Ibadan Book and Arts Festival (ÌbàFest) is set to hold a remarkable literary gathering titled Invocations of the Word: A Day of Poetry and Conversations with Niyi Osundare on Saturday, August 16, 2025. The event, which will serve as a prelude to the…
Life and Death Cruise: A Streetwise Gospel from Palmwine Sounds
Reading is aging gracefully, at least not on social media. There’s something refreshingly chaotic, audacious, and unfiltered about Life and Death Cruise, another poetry collection by Palmwine Sounds. From the very first lines, the book barrels forward…
Norman Masterpiece to Be Exhibited in the UK After 900 Years
One of the world’s most iconic historical artworks, the Bayeux Tapestry, is set to return to the United Kingdom more than 900 years after its creation. The 70-metre-long embroidered narrative, which vividly chronicles the Norman conquest of England in…