PERISCOPE

Non-payment threatens writers in Nigeria

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Like a marriage celebrated in heaven, that was how I felt when I saw the report on the Internet: “Farafina Trustholds its 2011 creative writing workshop in Lagos, from June 23 to July 2 2011.” I was so elated when I saw that it was organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie. Adichie, who quotes in her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun: 

POLITICAL LETTER

Appeals from Russian political prisoner

 

Dear friends! With my deepest gratitude I am thinking of you, all of you who signed the petition for my release. Here, in the jail cell number 525, I am in debt, eternal dept to all of you.

OPINION

Where Orji is good

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Some persons are so clever that they don't understand their misbehaviours. A cheap bookshop is better than the costliest ignorance. A person with intelligence through an organised religion/government has a measured intelligence. And anybody with a measured intelligence is just not witticism.