The Arts-Muse Fair

Writivism, the organizer of the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative nonfiction has released the long list of the 2017 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative non-fiction. Nigerian writers did not fail to impress the jury as they showed more on the shortlist. Details  here Here are the Nigerians: Akpa Arinzechukwu is photographer and writer. His work has appeared in Litro, Sou’wester, Brittle paper, New Contrast, Kalahari Review, Packingtown Review, ITCH, Eastlit, London Grip Poetry, The Flash Fiction Press, and elsewhere. Kadiri Alex holds a BA in English and literary studies. Like beads, he enjoys stringing individual words together to make wholesome, beautiful stories. Some of his works have appeared in ShortSharpShot, Problem House and Afreada amongst others. Ugochukwu Evans Nwankwo holds a B.Sc in Applied Biochemistry, and a diploma in Project Management. His short story was shortlisted for the 2016 Rusty Scythe awards. He currently works as an instructor in The Fin

Naseeba Babale, our Poet-Today from Kano shows the proximity of her muse to nature and its forms in these poems. Why not wait? How do I take just a drop When from the ocean I Can fumble and feel its coolness What do I do with a ray When the sun awaits A handshake with me I cannot sit at the foot of the mountain For the peak is home To my soul Until I take stars to My shore and dine with The moon... Until I walk on a carpet of Roses and the birds Light my path... Until disaster makes for Us a bed of comfort and Sorrow runs in fear... You wait I wait We wait. My Reservoir For another taste of your Drop I'd walk on thorns Even if my feet form a Pool of blood To bask in your sun I'd crawl on my knees Even if they form valleys And steep hills To breathe in your air I'd scale Everest on a Strand of hair even if Gravity interferes For in your sun my soul Flies in the vast sky H

GENRE: DRAMA                                                                                                                             AUTHOR: JIBRIN BALA  JIBRIN PUBLISHER: IMAGE PUBLISHERS REVIEWER: TUNJI OLADIRAN As history is a potent tool in the hands of most historians, playwrights or literary artists also consider history as essential material for the re-creation of   experiences, interpretation of the people’s history, re-inforce societal values, promote ideological predilections and to pass comment on situations in various societies. For instance, we have playwrights like Late Professor Ola Rotimi who explores the history of the 19th century Yoruba war in his Kurunmi and the Benin Massacre in the play, Ovoranwen Nogbaisi while Osofisan re-creates Moremi in his Morountodun, a legend in the history of the Yoruba. Granted that drama is always the reflection of culture and, it is not out of place to mention the Aristotelian dictum that playwrigh