Tag: Literature
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Why I don’t practice any religion – Wole Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has revealed that he doesn’t practice any religion or worship any deity, thereby creating an impression that he’s neither a Muslim nor Christian not even a traditional worshipper. Soyinka made this known on Sunday while presenting his two-volume collection of essays, noting that he doesn’t see anything wrong in using…
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Five books and authors that shaped children’s literature in Nigeria
Some books are simply classics and will remain evergreen. While it is impossible for TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) to list all the amazing indigenous books that have shaped Nigerian children’s literature over the past few decades, we can discuss our top five books and their authors.
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2022 UTME: JAMB changes literature texts for language subjects
JAMB says it has changed the literature texts in four language subjects and Literature- in-English, ahead of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It stated in its weekly bulletin issued on Monday that the four language subjects are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Arabic. The changes, it said, would take effect from the 2022 UTME.…
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Literature? What Literature?, By Azu Ishiekwene
By Azu Ishiekwene Literature, like other art forms, is a reflection of society. It is from the society that creative writers get their ideas. Society is the subject matter of literary expression. This is one of the reasons why literature is viewed in relation to the era or age it reflects. For instance, we have…