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Yenagoa Book & Arts Festival 2024 holds Sept 23-26, on theme, ‘Resilience: How Storytelling…
Yenagoa Book & Arts Festival is a unique cultural festival that deals with books and all cultural expressions in the hugely talented Niger Delta and Bayelsa State specifically.…
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LIFANIMA 2024 holds Oct 29-31, unveils Bank of Industry as ‘Official Partner’
The festival features Screening of Selected Works, Award Presentations, Networking and Entertainment, and attracts Animators; local and foreign, Filmmakers, Investors, Financial…
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‘Breakout: Hope is a Stubborn Thing’ is theme for Lagos Book & Art Festival 2024
This year’s edition holds special significance as it pays tribute to the renowned humanist scholar and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who celebrated his 90th birthday on July 13.…
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‘Why CORA celebrates 11 finalists of Nigeria Prize for Literature’
...at CORA, we see an opportunity for the creation of an entire economy around the book trade. The NPL cannot alone wipe out all the entrenched dysfunctions of the Nigerian publishing…
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NPL@20: A feast for children as CORA hosts 11 laureates
We are presenting troupes and groups of children as the readers of the 11 texts that form the longlist of the NPL 2024.
We want to specially celebrate our children and the…
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CORA-NPL Book Party 2024 parades 11 longlisted writers on Sat, Aug 17
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THE 15th CORA-Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party for writers longlisted for the 2024 edition of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NLP), endowed and promoted…
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Toki Mabogunje on call at CORA BookTrek 8.0 with ‘This is not a Discoteke’, Thurs, July 15
The 8th edition the CORA BookTrek, a book reading and discussion session, which holds Thursday, August 15 at the Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery of the Freedom Park, Lagos Island. The…
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An evening with Wole Soyinka: Celebrating 90 years of impact
Young Nigerians aspiring to make a difference must also recognise the importance of building a supportive team that shares their vision. Understanding community responsibility and…
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Four female African writers for Ebedi Int’l Writers Residency
FOUR female writers from Ghana, Nigeria and Togo have arrived Iseyin, Nigeria for the July/August 2024 Edition of the Ebedi International Writers Residency.
The writers are Left…
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How Uyo Book Club celebrated Wole Soyinka @90
THE session started with the Founder of Uyo Book Club Dr. Udeme Nana reading his poem, ‘Ode to Wole Soyinka’. He reviewed the life and times of the Nobel laureate, his contributions to…
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