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Wreaths For A Wayfarer
''Wreaths for a Wayfarer: An Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi'' is a 2020 collection of poems edited by Uche Peter Umez and Nduka Otiono in honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019). It was published by Daraja Press in North America and Narrative Landscape Press in Nigeria. Development Pius Adesanmi, Adesanmi died on 10 March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed shortly after take-off. He was on his way to an African Union conference. Following his death, a call was submission was made open which 267 poems from poets around the world. The collection was in reference to the first book ''The Wayfarer and Other Poems'' published by Adesanmi in 2001. In 2020, The anthology was edited by Nduka Otiono and Uche Peter Umezurike and published by Jarada Press in Canada and Narrative Landscape Press in January. Content The anthology had an introit by Niyi Osundare, an introduction by Nduka Otiono and a foreword by Odia Ofeimun. The book is div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uche Umez
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, also known as Uche Peter Umez, is a Nigerian author and academic currently working as an assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary. In addition to publishing several works of children’s fiction, short fiction, and poetry, his academic research draws from gender studies and critical race theory to analyze African, African diaspora, postcolonial, and global literatures as well as film. Education and Career Umezurike split most of his early years between Lagos and Owerri, although he traveled a lot and lived in many cities and states. He began his postsecondary education at Abia State University in Uturu, Nigeria. He was originally interested in embarking on a career in finance and enrolled in business administration and banking programs, though he later switched to a government and public administration program, which he completed in 1997. Yet, neither field captured his curiosity. It was at this time that Umezurike became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittle Paper
''Brittle Paper'' is an online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language. Its focus is on "build(ing) a vibrant African literary scene." It was founded by Ainehi Edoro (at the time a doctoral student from Duke University, now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison). Since its founding in 2010, ''Brittle Paper'' has published fiction, poetry, essays, creative nonfiction and photography from both established and upcoming African writers and artists in the continent and around the world. A member of ''The Guardian'' Books Network, it has been described as "the village square of African literature", as "Africa's leading literary journal", and as "one of Africa's most on the ball and talked-about literary publications". In 2014, the magazine was named a Go-To Book Blog by ''Publishers Weekly'', who describe it as "an essential source of news about new work by writers of color outside of the United States." F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuma Nwokolo
Chuma Nwokolo (born 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and publisher. Early life and education Chuma Nwokolo was born in Jos, Nigeria, in 1963. He graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1983 and was called to the bar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1984. Career He worked for the Legal Aid Council and was managing partner of the C&G Chambers, practising mainly in Lagos Nigeria. He was also writer-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. He is publisher of the literary magazine ''African Writing'', which he founded with Afem Akem. Nwokolo's first novels, ''The Extortionist'' (1983) and ''Dangerous Inheritance'' (1988), were published by Macmillan in the Pacesetter Novels. His other books include ''African Tales at Jailpoint'' (1999), ''Diaries of a Dead African'' (2003) ''One More Tale for the Road'' (2003), ''Memories of Stone'' (poetry, 2006), ''The Ghost of Sani Abacha'' (2012), ''How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories'' (2013), ''The Final Testament o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kola Tubosun
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, and cultural activist."Writing a New Nigeria: Ideas of Identity" , , His work and influence span the fields of education, language technology, literature, journalism, and linguistics. He is the recipient of the 2016 "Special Prize" for Writings in the Mother Tongue. (Ostana Premio Scritture in Lingua Madre) for his work in language advocacy. He writes in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unoma Azuah
Unoma Azuah (born 23 June 1969) is a Nigerian writer, author, and activist whose research and activism focus on LGBT writing in Nigerian literature. She has published three books, two of which have won international awards. She focuses on issues relating to queer Nigerians, such as in ''Blessed Body: Secret Lives of LGBT Nigerians'' (2016). Biography Azuah was born in Ogwashi-Ukwu in Delta State of Nigeria to a Tiv father from Ukan in Ushongo local government area of Benue State and to an Igbo mother from Asaba in Delta State. Being born during the Nigerian Civil War to parents on both sides of the conflict, she was raised mostly as Igbo and was estranged from her paternal family because a Tiv Nigerian soldier was not supposed to cross the enemy line to get involved with a Biafran (Igbo) woman. She attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where, as an undergraduate, she edited the English department literary journal called ''The Muse'' and received the awards of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Bryce
Jane Bryce (born 1951) is a British writer, journalist, literary and cultural critic, as well as an academic. She was born and raised in Tanzania, has lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, and since 1992 has been based in Barbados. Her writing for a wide range of publications has focused on contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, postcolonial cinema and creative writing, and she is Professor Emerita of African Literature and Cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She edited the anthology ''Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean'' (2006), and is the author of a 2007 collection of short fiction, entitled ''Chameleon''. Background Early years Jane Bryce was born in 1951 in Lindi, Tanzania, and grew up in Moshi, until the age of 13, when she was sent to school in England. As she said in an interview in ''African Writing'', "I have a British passport, because when I was born in Tanzania, it was a British protectorate. We were given the choice of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sihle Ntuli
Siphesihle Ntuli is a South African field hockey coach. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he assistant coached the South Africa men's national field hockey team and coach South Africa men Junior World Cup. He brother, Nqobile, also represents South Africa in field hockey. Coach Club * 2018, University of KwaZulu-Natal - Men field hockey (head coach) * 2018–present, University of Pretoria - Men field hockey (head coach) * 2016-2018, Drakensberg Dragons (head coach) ** 2016 ** 2017 ** 2018 ** 2019 South Africa * 2018, South Africa U18 (head coach) ** African Youth Games 2018 * 2021, South Africa U21 (head coach) **2021 Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup, 9th * 2018–present, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ... (assistant coach) References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia Ofeimun
Odia Ofeimun (born 16 March 1950)"Biography: Odia Ofeimun, Nigeria" Badilisha Poetry X-change. is a Nigerian people, Nigerian poet and polemicist, the author of many volumes of poetry, books of political essays and on cultural politics, and the editor of two significant anthologies of Nigerian poetry. His work has been widely anthologized and translated and he has read and performed his poetry internationally. Biography Odia Ofeimun was born in Iruekpen-Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, in 1950. He worked as a news reporter, factory labourer and civil servant before studying Political Science at the University of Ibadan, where his poetry won first prize in the University Competition of 1975. That year his work appeared in the anthology ''Poems of Black Africa'' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare is a leading African poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on March 12, 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he capaciously hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African American, Latin American, Asian, and European. Osundare is a champion of free speech and his creative and critical writings are closely associated with political activism, decolonization, black internationalism, and the environment. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Tchicaya U Tam'si Poetry Prize, and the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize (twice). In 1991, Osundare became the first Anglophone African poet to win the Noma Award (Africa's most prestigious book award), and in 1998, he was awarded the Fonlon/Nichols Prize for his "excellence in literary creativity combined with significant contributions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Introit
The Introit (from Latin: ''introitus'', "entrance") is part of the opening of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations. In its most complete version, it consists of an antiphon, psalm verse and ''Gloria Patri'', which are spoken or sung at the beginning of the celebration. It is part of the Proper of the liturgy: that is, the part that changes over the liturgical year. In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church it is known as the ''antiphona ad introitum'' (Entrance antiphon), as in the text for each day's Mass, or as the ''cantus ad introitum'' (Entrance chant) as in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 47 and the First Roman Ordo (sixth to seventh century).Fortescue, A. (1910)"Introit" ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Retrieved 2 May 2009 In pre-1970 editions of the Roman Missal, the word ''Introitus'' was used, distinguished from the normal meaning of the word (entrance) by being capitalized. In Ambrosian chant and Beneventan chant, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanguard (Nigeria)
''Vanguard'' is a daily newspaper published by Vanguard Media, based in Lagos, Nigeria. Vanguard Media was established in 1984 by veteran journalist Sam Amuka-Pemu with three friends. The paper has an online edition. It is one of the few newspapers in Nigeria considered independent from political control, the others being This Day, The Punch, The Sun and The Guardian. In June 1990, the paper was briefly suspended by Col. Raji Rasaki, Military Governor of Lagos State. In December 2008, the US-based ''Pointblanknews.com'' published a story that alleged the wife of the publisher of Vanguard Newspapers was involved in a ritual killing. ''The Vanguard'' took the reporter to court, claiming he was attempting extortion. In December 2009, a Niger Delta The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. It is located within nine coastal southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian (Nigeria)
''The Guardian'' is a Nigerian independent daily newspaper, established in 1983, published by Guardian Newspapers Limited in Lagos, Nigeria History ''The Guardian'' was established in 1983 by Alex Ibru, an entrepreneur, and Stanley Macebuh, a top journalist with the '' Daily Times'' newspapers, with its model copied from the original ''The Guardian'' in the UK. ''The Guardian'' was a pioneer in introducing high-quality journalism to Nigeria with thoughtful editorial content. The paper was first published on 22 February 1983 as a weekly, appearing on Sundays. It started daily publication on 4 July 1983. During the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari, reporters Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor were both sent to jail in 1984 under Decree No. 4 of 1984, which suppressed journalistic freedom. On 26 August 1989 ''The Guardian'' published a long letter by Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti, a human-rights activist, entitled "Open Letter to President Babangida", in which he criticized what ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
