So, you might’ve heard about this already on Pulse, The Cable, Brittlepaper or when we tweeted about it. You might still be finding it hard to believe, and we hate to be the harbingers of bad news, but sadly it’s true: the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop is cancelled for 2017. Here’s that word from Chimamanda Ngozi […]
Alara is a contemporary design store, dedicated to the fusion of African and international fashion, art, design, cuisine and culture. The flagship Alara store is located in Victoria Island, the commercial and lifestyle hub of the city of Lagos, in Nigeria. Alara was created to connect African consumers to world-class luxury lifestyle experiences … and […]
WAW Project Series, a project vehicle of Words Are Work and Accelo Creative hereby calls for submissions to an Igbo traditional online and print publication titled ‘Igodo Umuavulu 2016’. Igodo Umuavulu is essentially the cultural scroll of Umuavulu Ujaligwa–a gifted and versatile people of Udi L.G.A. in Enugu state–and it is curated by WAW Project […]
Dear Mother, I hate cooking. I. HATE. COOKING. You know it never came naturally to me. I’ve always had to write down your recipes because I never really understood the entire concept of cooking. At first, I worried that maybe there was something wrong with me, I mean, every ‘normal’ girl should know how […]
*See readers note at the end* Remember Eketi Aime Ette, who won the Flash Trinity after sparring with Hymar David in duels of glorious flash fiction? Yes, the Queen of the Afang Gang whose WAW time-out we shared with you in this place? You remember, right? Gbam! So word out is that she is organizing […]
March 2016 (3/12) A Year of Books by Suyi Davies The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor SciFi/Fantasy Published by DAW/Hodder (May 2015) 240 pages, paperback Welcome friends! How was March? Who wasn’t glad to get a break from the hustle and bustle and spend two whole public holidays doing whatever you liked? Who? […]
Don’t climb trees, our mothers told us, the boys would get a good view; keep your hair away from your face and smile. Smile like this when you like a person and like this when you don’t. Don’t slouch; no, that does not mean you should chest out either! What are you, a wrestler? Tufiakwa! […]
The Writer Competition is an online ‘reality’ writing competition created by TheNakedConvos which has been run for 3 successful editions, where contestants are given a topic or theme to write on each week and you, the public, as well as our judges, assess them and vote to keep the best writers in the game until […]
At 19, I decided I was no longer fine being normal. By normal I mean the kinda girl who accepted everything BS and all. The welcoming lady, with a perfect smile Quiet and shy and coy too, I guess. To make men feel less threatened, Speak only when spoken to, Keep your opinions to yourself, […]
As a child I used to think that the word ‘illiterates’ was a word used to describe those who did not go to school, i.e. the uneducated. Then I grew up and discovered the worst kind of illiterates, this bunch whom I shall refer to as the educated illiterates. Even with their degrees, these ‘elites’ […]
