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October 9, 2021

Your Guide to Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels

He is the first Black writer in 28 years, the second Black African, and the first East African laureate in literature. Here are the Tanzanian’s 10 novels.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

October 8, 2021

Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah: 22 Essays on the 2021 Nobel Prize Winner’s Works

In awarding the Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, critic, and former academic, the Swedish Academy recommends these.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah by Frank Augstein/AP.

July 15, 2021

52 Books in 64 Years: Your Guide to Wole Soyinka’s Body of Work

“Only one universal ideology answers human cruelties, the excesses of power, bigotries, social inequalities and alienation: Literature,” wrote Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, who turned 87 this week.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

January 19, 2021

5 Nigerian Spoken Word Albums You Should Listen To

. . . by RezThaPoet, Vector, Wana Udobang, Shegzrhymz, and Titilope Sonuga.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 9, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

Your Guide to Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels

He is the first Black writer in 28 years, the second Black African, and the first East African laureate in literature. Here are the Tanzanian’s 10 novels.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 8, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah by Frank Augstein/AP.

Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah: 22 Essays on the 2021 Nobel Prize Winner’s Works

In awarding the Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, critic, and former academic, the Swedish Academy recommends these.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 15, 2021

Wole Soyinka. Credit: University of Oxford.

52 Books in 64 Years: Your Guide to Wole Soyinka’s Body of Work

“Only one universal ideology answers human cruelties, the excesses of power, bigotries, social inequalities and alienation: Literature,” wrote Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, who turned 87 this week.
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 19, 2021

5 Nigerian Spoken Word Albums You Should Listen To

. . . by RezThaPoet, Vector, Wana Udobang, Shegzrhymz, and Titilope Sonuga.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

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