The African Literary Nexus

The African Literary Nexus African Literature and Creative Writing INTRODUCTION

Today, African Literature is fast growing in the colosseum of the World Literature. Welcome to my world!

African writers have been inspired by their immediate societal experience to write their societies and themselves into the World Literature. This has struck the attention of literary artistes and critics within and outside the African continent and prompted them to make notable contributions to the growth and development of the Literature of the Negros. The purpose of this group is to create a net

work of artistic and critical views, opinions and ideas on African Literature in order to aid the current trend in the Literature in own simple way. Bamgbose, Gabriel Sunday
Facilitator

MISSION

To create a confluence of literary philosophical and aesthetic ideas that would promote the awareness, growth and development of African Literature. VISION

To establish an academic student journal of high repute on African Literature in 2015. MODUS OPERANDI

We create 'internal knots' (questions posed based on the facilitator's research and experience) on African Literature to be untied on weekly or monthly basis. This would always come under the umbrella KNOT FOR THE WEEK/MONTH. We also welcome 'external knots' (questions posed by people) on African Literature from members and non-members for general discussion. These activities are meant to help budding of young literary artistes and critics develop their skills through exposure to the rudiment of the African literery art. We also hope to invite literary icons in African Literature to contribute ideas that could help birth with ease the unborn literary aesthetic and philosophical wards, the 'brain child" , borrowing from Buchi Emecheta's words, in the budding or potential African literary artistes and critics. Our world is a world of ideas. We are sure with your total support and encouragement, our achievements are limitless. Thank you. Bamgbose, Gabriel Sunday
B.A [ED] Hons, English Language & Literature

Hello guys! The print edition of my collection of poems, Something Happened After the Rain, is available! You can also s...
21/11/2014

Hello guys! The print edition of my collection of poems, Something Happened After the Rain, is available! You can also see it on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Something-Happened-After-Rain-Poems/dp/148280252X or http://www.amazon.ca/Something-Happened-After-Rain-Poems/dp/148280252X), Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Q2FvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT73&lpg=PT73&dq=something+happened+after+the+rain&source=bl&ots=kpAwJTgLKi&sig=SE_j_xd6COrsNnsM_z_vnKO8nwo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AZdvVNqsCbaJsQTLrIHQCw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg =onepage&q=something%20happened%20after%20the%20rain&f=false), Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Gabriel_Bamgbose_Something_Happened_After_the_Rain?id=Q2FvBAAAQBAJ), Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/something-happened-after-the-rain-gabriel-bamgbose/1120146099?ean=9781482802528&itm=1&usri=9781482802528&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-onVyJopRmtU-_-15:9781482802528&r=1) among others!

Available in: NOOK Book (eBook), Paperback. The poems in this collection concatenate myriad of happenings in life which, though may take a similar course, do not leave us to grin and grimace at the same time. The turn of events in life, like ra

28/05/2014

Thank you, Maya Angelou. May you rest in peace.

28/05/2014
28/05/2014

Legendary author and poet Maya Angelou passed away this morning at the age of 86. She was one of the greats and there will never be another like her. If you ever walked by her side, read any of her books or poems, heard her speak or simply witnessed her smile you were blessed. She touched the world and inspired so many people with her beautiful words and actions. Her spirit will continue to live on forever! We will probably never forget your words, but we will definitely never forget how you made us feel!

Dr. Angelou was a poet, a teacher an activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. She received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of seventeen, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, night-club dancer and performer, cast-member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. Since 1982, she taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she holds the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Since the 1990s she made around eighty appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

27/05/2014

Ijagun Poetry Journal invites submissions of poetry, reviews, essays, and anything about poetry for its June 2014 issue. We also welcome art works and photographs for the issue. Please, endeavour to send your work before 20th June, 2014 if you want it… [ 71 more words. ]

27/05/2014

Editor’s Note What is poetry if it carries not an iota of poetic truthS? I must acknowledge that I owe the idea of truthS to Linda Hutcheon. When Charles Bukowski expresses the view that “Poetry is...

27/05/2014

Vol. 2 – No. 1            March 2014 Contents Tim Trimble The Slap Dreaming Diego We Two Paul Benton The Ice Cream Man Is Burning The Magical On the East Bank of Mississippi River, New Orleans Mahi...

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Ken Trimble is sixty years old and he lives on a mountain in south eastern Australia in a town called Warburton. He has published six books; four books of the six were published by Littlefox Publis...

27/05/2014

Paul Benton was born in Sedalia, Missouri (short-lived home of Scott Joplin) and learned early on to love and appreciate poetry and wordplay through Dr Seuss and Edgar Allen Poe. He has had poetry ...

27/05/2014

Mahima Gupta is a 17-year old poet from Kolkata, India. She is a student of Class 12. Writing has been a very important part of her life since the time she realises how wonderful it is to pen down ...

27/05/2014

Basit A. Olatunji was born in Ifon-osun, Osun State, Nigeria. He is a poet, an editor and an essayist. His first poetry collection, Thoughtful Reflections, was published in 2011. He is also working...

27/05/2014

When not being a creatively-frustrated Secretary employed by a very nice University in NY, Stephen Mead is a published artist, writer, maker of short collage-films and poetry/music mp3s.  Much can ...

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