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An African City’s Nana Mensah Up For 2017 Lucille Lortel Award
Actress Nana Mensah has earned a nomination at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards. She was nominated in the Outstanding...
‘Moonlight’ Director To Film Slavery Drama For Amazon
Director Barry Jenkins, whose movie "Moonlight" won this year's best picture Oscar, is to write and direct a drama for...
Ghanaian Writer Yaa Gyasi Bags $1 Million For Debut Novel
Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi is poised to make a huge splash in the literary world with her debut historical...
Stars Pay Tribute To Chuck Berry
Musical stars are paying tribute to Chuck Berry after the influential performer died aged 90. US singer-songwriter...
Rock and Roll Legend Chuck Berry Dies Aged 90
Chuck Berry, the guitarist and songwriter recognised as one of the fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, has died aged 90....
Rock and Roll Legend Chuck Berry Dies
Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in the US state of Missouri report. The singer was found...
Russia Court To Consider Jehovah’s Witnesses Ban
Russia's justice ministry has called for a ban on the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian movement that zealously seeks...
Why Transgender Africans Turned Against A Famous Feminist
A leading African writer has transfixed the internet with her comments on gender - but fellow Nigerians say they feel...
‘Algeria’s Orwell’ Urges Writers To Fight Fundamentalism
Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose novel "2084" depicted a dystopian state governed by religious law, says writers...
Murakami Fans To Pack Stores At Midnight For New Novel
Die-hard fans of Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author perennially pegged as a contender for the Nobel literature prize,...
Is This Really How Fascism Takes Hold In the US?
There has, lately, been a rush of interest in cultural offerings premised on the return of fascism. The Man in the High...
JK Rowling Hits Back Over Threats To Burn Harry Potter Books
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has hit back at Twitter users who threatened to burn her books following her criticism...
A Nation So Blessed, But So Cursed
It is New Year again. As usual, many Christians went to Church on New Year Eve to receive prophesies for the incoming...
Soyinka Destroys ‘green Card’ As Promised
Wole Soyinka promised to shred permanent residence permit for the US if Trump won the elections Nigeria's Nobel Prize...
How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo
Nigerian novelist: How I was banned from speaking Igbo In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian...
Is It Problematic For A Feminist To Sell Make-Up?
Face of feminism: Is it problematic for a feminist to sell make-up? One of the world’s leading feminists is not the...
Ghana, Under Mahama, Is A Divided Nation
I was chatting with a woman lecturer in Communication Studies from Nigeria yesterday, who said: “In Africa, a whole...
How Nduom Defrauded Ghana of Billions of Cedis
By Sapati, B. A. The assertion by 18th century French novelist and playwright, Honore de Balzac, that "Behind every...