The 11 novelists shortlisted for the 2021 $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL) are to be hosted Sunday, August 8 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, VI, Lagos The party
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Rowland Abiodun is John C. Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Yoruba Art and
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