The Booker Prize is awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. For the prize, authors are nominated for their excellence and their commitment to promote art and literature. From inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African […]
Ben Okri
Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions. Okri published his first novel, Flowers and Shadows in 1980, after which he rose to international acclaim. Since he debuted his career as an author, he has […]
African writers have written in diverse forms, styles and in many languages. They have been able to creatively put words about their lives, experiences, culture, history and myth together in books published widely on the African continent and beyond. Many of these books consists sentences that impart divine influence on […]
“Want to hide something from an African? Put it in a book“- As hillarious as this quote seems, it does not apply to every black out there and we have put together, five essential African novels of all time, for book lovers, going by popular demand. Enjoy! “Things Fall Apart” […]
While we anxiously wait for the announcement of this year’s Booker Prize winner; which has as one of the shortlisted our beloved writer, Chigozie Obioma, here are the only four books by African writers that have won the prestigious Booker Prize, since its debut in 1969. 1. The Conservationist – […]
These six books from acclaimed Nigerian writers are some that you should, by all means read. With the likes of Chika Unigwe, Helon Habila and Ben Okri in this brief list, the reading experience promises to be unforgettable as they bless us with new works of fiction. Better Never Than […]
eelive.ng takes a look at some of the books written by Africans that have been the talk of town through the month of July.
