Like Messi, Ronaldo: Achebe and Soyinka

By Udeme Nana The ongoing drumming of Anuka, Egede and Ogene on one side and Agbe, Ashiko and Bata on the other is an insult to the legacy and global stature of these two great Nigerians. Those who weigh in …

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How UYO BOOK CLUB is stimulating a Books economy and intellectual Tourism in Akwa Ibom State

How UYO BOOK CLUB is stimulating a Books economy and intellectual Tourism in Akwa Ibom State

By UDEME NANA Anietie Usen is a multiple award-winning journalist who worked for Punch Newspaper and Newswatch Magazine. He was a Foreign Affairs Editor and later Political Editor of the Newsmagazine who covered and reported on several earth-shaking political events. …

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What Do Readers Digest?: The Uyo Book Club Debate on Ethical Journalism, Survival, and Masked Propaganda

“Reader’s Digest UK Shuts Down After 86 Years”. This was the caption, the heading. Whether as a literati or casual reader, this caption – the shutdown of a media house and a fondly-read publication – was always going to elicit …

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Feminism Moderates and Ultras, and Everything In Between: A Day in Uyo Book Club Gender Debate

Feminism and women rights in Nigeria

  It all began with a forwarded post in the WhatsApp group by Nsikak Essien. Well, you know how forwarded messages and other such posts elicit reactions on social media platforms, right? The Uyo Book Club WhatsApp group is no …

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Nana: Yes, we chop books

By Ray Ekpu There is a revolution, a silent, noiseless revolution, that is going on in Akwa Ibom State now. And because it is not cacophonous or ear-splitting many people within the state may not have noticed its birth or …

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Opinion: Can We Separate the Art from the Artist? UBC Members Weigh in On Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Domestic Abuse Allegation

ngugi wa thiongo mukoma wa ngugi

On March 12, Mukoma wa Ngugi, the Kenyan American poet and author, who is the son of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the famed writer widely seen as a giant of African literature, took to X, formerly Twitter, to allege that his …

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