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One of Adébáyọ̀'s stories was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. [7] Her poems and stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies, including East Jasmine Review, Farafina Magazine, Saraba Magazine, Kalahari Review, Lawino Magazine, Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of New African Writing, Off the Coast: Maine’s International ...
The Joys of Motherhood is a novel written by Buchi Emecheta.It was first published in London, UK, by Allison & Busby in 1979 and was first published in Heinemann's African Writers Series in 1980 and reprinted in 1982, 2004, 2008.
His short story Flying was shortlisted again in 2015. [44] His first novel Born on a Tuesday was published in 2016 and traces the shaping of adolescents through experiences of violence. [ 45 ] He was shortlisted for the NLNG Literary Award, Nigeria's most prestigious literary prize, and shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Award in ...
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A story from the collection, "The Phoenix", won the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition. [6] His second collection of stories, Love Is Power, or Something Like That, was published by Graywolf Press in 2013; [7] according to The Boston Globe, the collection "pulses with an indomitable life force that is, by turns, tender and fierce". [8]
Zaynab Alkali (born 1950), novelist, short-story writer and academic; T. M. Aluko (1918–2010), novelist and autobiographer; Elechi Amadi (1934–2016), novelist; Ifi Amadiume (born 1947), poet, anthropologist and essayist; Karen King-Aribisala, short-story writer, novelist and academic; Yemisi Aribisala (born 1973), essayist and food memoirist
Marriage is a recurrent theme in Half of a Yellow Sun. For the most part of the novel, Olanna and Kainene both live with men without it being question of marriage. Olanna refuses to get married many times at first, fearing that marriage would "flatten [their bond] to a prosaic partnership."
The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi originally published in 1966 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.. Set in a remote village in Eastern Nigeria, an area yet to be affected by European values and where society is orderly and predictable, the story concerns a woman "of great beauty and dignity" who inadvertently brings suffering and death to all her lovers.