'There is a lot of focus on books from all over Africa and the world; authors include Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Kunle Ajibade, Ayi Kwei Armah, Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head Ifeoma Chinwuba, Lewis Nkosi, Futhi Ntshingila, Es’kia Mphahlele, Gabriel Okara, Kola Onadipe, Emmanuel Obiechina, Ola Rotimi, Mbella Sonne Dipoko, Cyprian Ekwensi, Peter Abrahams, Kofi Awoonor, Kole Omotosho, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Dillibe Onyeama, Mariama Ba, Charles Mungoshi, Mabel Segun, Kenneth Kaunda, Siphiwo Mahala and NMM Duman. Others (mainly from Europe) include works by the likes of William Shakespeare, George Orwell, John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. Others in this ilk include Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Conrad, Namitha Gokhale, Joyce Cary, Leslie Meir, Leonard Woolf, Betty Tootell, and Maria Sharapova. Bolaji writes on all these, and more here.'
Hearty Congratulations!
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ReplyDeleteWhat a book! Mr Bolaji at his best and most "literary". I loved many of the features especially the focus on Camara Laye's books; and the one zeroing in on Palmer''s great work on early African novels
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