Nigerian Times

Nigerian journalist, poet and dramatist Adeleke Adeyemi aka Mai Nasara has won the $100,000 Nigeria LNG Prize For Literature for his children's book The Missing Clock . The Missing Clock, was judged the best among the 126 books entered for the competition. The judges described The Missing Clock as “a genial heartwarming account of how a young boy's simple acts inspire his family to fortune”. Chairman of the panel of judges, Prof. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo of the University of Lagos and past co-winner of the prize, said “The Missing Clock celebrates ingenuity, hard work and sparkles in its prose.” She called Adeyemi, “a gifted story teller.” Mai Nasara is the pen name of Adeleke Adeyemi, a journalist and science communicator with interests as varied as film/TV, tennis, poetry, girl-child education and leadership studies. His work promotes a number of causes, from malaria eradication, orphanage funding to long-term scholarship for girls, as well as the history of science, engine...

Yes. Amazon.com is now selling more e-books than paperback and hardbound combined. When you are releasing your new books, make sure you also release the electronic downloads as well. Versions of books in Kindle have sold more than the titles in print. The Nigerian Fools Who Think They Can Fool God by Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi is one of the most demanded book on Nigeria. Kindle, Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Pearl Display Have I forgotten anyone? Dozens, hundreds----I’m certain. Anyone who ventures to survey must prepare to live with a haunting sense of omission.” ~ Sven Birkerts , from SNAPSHOTS FROM THE BRIDGE , an essay on contemporary writers in post modern American Literature. Meanwhile, the proportion of readers in the United States seems to have grown and I find it always a pleasure to see on the New York City subways ethnically diverse young people reading good books. There is no reason to worry about the future of books in the United States. ~ Jason Epstein . Click here to...

Norman Mailer When Norman Mailer died on November 10, 2007, the news of his passage was on the leading newspapers and major TV channels in America and Britain and I saw him on the CNN, SKY and the BBC. But none of these foreign news media reported the news of the passage of Cyprian Ekwensi who even died earlier in the same month on the 4th and my disappointment has been more pronounced by the ignorance of our own news media who only reported the news of Ekwensi's transition below their headlines and only The Guardian has given us a full report on the life of our own Charles Dickens, Cyprian Ekwensi. I have not even heard or read any statements by his contemporary literary icons like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. Cyprian Ekwensi I am really disappointed by the intellectual ignorance of the majority of Nigerians online and offline. That is why I do not have much regard for the ignorant posts of Nigerians on Nairaland and other Nigerian forums and blogs. Abubuwan da nake tunani has...