I have known Nduka since 1999 when as an Editor with one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers, he covered my visit to Nigeria after nine years of exile during which the country suffered from military dictatorship. On that encounter with him, I was particularly struck by the exceptional passion and professionalism…
Nigeria . . . witnessed a healthy literary revolution spearheaded by the Post Express Literary Supplement (PELS), a weekly pull out of the national daily, The Post Express. . . [T]his four-page literary phenomenon is edited by a writer, Nduka Otiono, a member of the increasingly visible third generation of…
Born in Kano, Nigeria, Nduka Otiono is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He was educated at the University of Ibadan and University of Alberta where he obtained his PhD in English and won numerous awards including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, and was nominated…
Amatoritsero Ede: To be sincere with you, I have not really thought of you as a poet in the past. I had seen you as more the writer of stories than of poetry; the journalist, literary administrator, great organiser and anthologist, either of poetry or prose. When did you begin…
NENGI JOSEF OWEI-ILAGHA, fondly called Pope Pen the First, was recently released after 135 days of incarceration at Okaka Medium Security Prison, Yenagoa, Nigeria, for publishing Epistles to Maduabebe, a book that the powerful paramount ruler of his hometown, Nembe, in Bayelsa State, considered defamatory and therefore sought to censor. The…
The generally peaceful conduct of the March 28, 2015 Nigerian presidential election and the gracious acceptance of defeat by the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) strongly signaled that Nigeria may have turned a new page, politically. Other indicators of a new turn for Africa’s largest…
