Saturday, 4 February 2012
Columnists
 Chido Onumah trained as a journalist at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He was Director of Africa Program, Panos Institute, Washington, DC, and Assistant Editor of Third World Network’s African Agenda magazine. He is currently the Director of the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy. |
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 The section for "Guest Columnists" on SaharaReporters |
 Ogaga Ifowodo, Ph.D teaches poetry and literature at Texas State University-San Marcos in the United States. |
 “By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” |
 A blogger on contemporary Nigerian politics, no-holds-barred |
 Okey Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria, in 1960. After a career as a magazine editor in Nigeria, he moved to the US to be the founding editor of African Commentary, an award-winning magazine published by the Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe. A visiting writer-in-residence and assistant professor of English at Connecticut College, Ndibe has contributed poems to An Anthology of New West African Poets, edited by the Gambian poet, Tijan Sallah. He has also published essays in a number of North American, British and Nigerian magazines and writes a weekly column for the Guardian, Nigeria’s most respected daily newspaper. Arrows of Rain is his first novel. With it, he says: ‘I felt I was grappling with an important human drama that just happened to be set in Africa... I wrote it while I was out of Nigeria. It would have been a different book if I had written it while in the country more angry, less meditative.’ |
 Professor Pius Adesanmi of the Department of English Language and Literature and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University has a book manuscript shortlisted for the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the non-fiction category. His book You’re Not a Country, Africa is one of ten manuscripts shortlisted for this prestigious prize. The winner will be announced at the Mail & Guardian Literary Festival on 4 September, 2010. The prize is 50 000 South African Rand and a publishing contract with Penguin Books South Africa, with worldwide distribution via Penguin Group companies. |
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Sonala Olumhense is a regular writer on SaharaReporters.com |
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Akogun is a regular writer on SaharaReporters.com |
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