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Fighting With Writing

Global UpfrontMay 20, 2026May 20, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Viral Poems by Sunny Ayewanu; Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 109pp Some people fight with guns, some others fight with

Dissecting The Heart Of The Land

Global UpfrontMay 13, 2026May 13, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Footnotes For A Nativeland by Emman Usman Shehu; Topaz Books, Abuja, Nigeria; 2026; 120pp He is in the top ranks of potent

The Soludo Template

Global UpfrontMar 18, 2026March 18, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Audacity To Transform: A First Row Testimony On The Ongoing Development In Anambra By Gov. Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s Administration by

Parresia Books: Reason To Believe In Nigeria’s Literary Future

Global UpfrontMar 11, 2026March 11, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Lagos scene is where books happen – as per the written word having multiform events being organized for seasons on

The Great African Survival

Global UpfrontMar 4, 2026March 4, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Riding The Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Toni Kan; Narrative Landscape Press, Lagos, Nigeria; 2024;

My First And Last Conversation With Late Yakubu Mohammed.

Global UpfrontJan 20, 2026January 20, 20260

By Iliyasu Gadu, Ilgad2009@gmail.com 08035355706 (Texts only) Sometime in October last year, as I was driving home after participating in a television programme, my phone

South Africa Hosts Multinational Naval Exercise With SA, Iran, China, and Russia in January

Global UpfrontDec 31, 2025December 31, 20251

South Africa will host the multinational naval exercise Will for Peace 2026 in early January, when Chinese, Russian, and Iranian naval vessels will arrive on

Before The Curtain Falls: Igwe Laz Ekwueme’s Sublime Book Launch Of 26 Christmas Carols In 7 Nigerian Languages

Global UpfrontDec 8, 2025December 8, 20250

By Kossy Ebunilo All roads in the South East in particular and Nigeria in general led to the International Conference Centre, Awka on Saturday, 6th

God In Nigeria: The Country’s Novelists Help Us Understand The Complexity Of Christianity

Global UpfrontDec 5, 2025December 5, 20251

By Adriaan van Klinken n African literature, Christianity has usually been shown as a foreign religion brought to the continent by European missionaries and colonisers.

From Integrity to Insatiable Greed: The Moral Decline of Nigeria’s Political Leadership

Global UpfrontNov 1, 2025November 1, 20251

By Professor Abiodun Ojo In 2010, at the launch of his autobiography My Life of Service with Integrity, Brigadier-General Mobolaji Johnson (rtd), the first military