By Wana Udobang While the world anticipates the release of the silver screen adaptation of the Orange prize winning novel ‘Half of a yellow sun’ , Its author Chimamanda Adichie is back on the road promoting her third novel titled ‘Americanah’. Though Americanah has been described by critics as a novel about race and […]
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By Wana Udobang Lola Shoneyin is a poet and novelist. Her collections of poetry include All The Time I Was Sitting On An Egg and Song Of The Riverbird. Her novel, The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi’s Wives is a tragicomic tale of the four wives of a Nigerian patriarch. The critically acclaimed Baba Segi […]
As part of the 1k4cancer campaign, i will still be sharing stories, conversations, letters and diaries from people who have lost loved ones to the disease. Ada Ogunkeye is a colleague who has now become a dear friend. On friday nights we partake in a ritual situated at a shopping mall parking lot where we […]
I was once told that the cure for cancer kills the rich and the lack of it kills the poor. Either way, cancer is consistently shattering the lives of many individuals and those they leave behind. Through the month of October, I will be featuring conversations, letters and diaries from friends who have lost […]
They say that a good story is able to interprete fact and information, exhibit skills of observation, and analyses but essentially a good story has to have heart. It has to tell a story. Kanu Ahaoma’s story titled ‘Badagry: A walk through the slave route’ leaves you with a strange nostalgic lump in your throat. […]
Rapelang Rabana’s lists of credits are piling up. The founding CEO of Yeigo Communications, a software development organisation based in South Africa, recently snagged a mention courtesy of CNN as one of Africa’s Marrissa Mayers and also stood as Ambassador and Juror for the United Nations Youth Summit Awards. Rapelang is also a fellow […]
The body; ephemeral, temporal, and transient. Though all words synonymous, these have been some of the terms used to describe its very nature but yet its characteristic to clutch at the very essence of ones being remains overwhelming. Glory Edozien and I have become very close friends just within a few years and in moments […]
I met Chizoba Imoka about a year ago when she asked me to speak at the mentor-ship session at her Teenagers conference. A humbling and satisfying experience if I may add. Since then, we haven’t only become friends but collaborators and somewhat advisers to each others social change projects. Spilling over with passion, in the […]
Carmela Alvarez is twenty-five years old and was elected into public office as the Mayor of a town called San Vicente in the Palawan province in the Philippines. I met ‘Pie’ as we call her as one of my fellow global shapers at the January 2012 World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos. Along with education […]