by James Carroll THE LIQUIDATION of Borders Books, announced last week, is like the death of an unlikely friend – unlikely because Borders was…
Half of Africa’s one billion population has a mobile phone – and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new…
Alan Hollinghurst and Philip Hensher delivered a masterclass at the Telegraph Ways With Words Festival on how to write fiction. By Anita Singh The…
Bella Ellwood-Clayton Asia is the leader of digital and mobile culture and the Philippines: the world’s texting capital. This paper provides an overview of…
By Dibussi Tande On July 9, 2011, Cameroon’s parliament adopted a bill granting Cameroonians abroad the right to vote in presidential elections and referendum…
Newly discovered Nigerian-Ghanaian writer Taiye Selasi, Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina and Congolese filmmaker Léandre-Alain Baker are among the artists whose work is discussed in this…
Bongasu Tanla Kishani has been shortlisted for the EduART Bate Besong Award for poetry for his collection of poems, A Basket of Kola Nuts.…
Some time in the 1920s, the Conservative statesman F. E. Smith — Lord Birkenhead — gave a copy of the “Nicomachean Ethics” to his…
Julian Barnes pays tribute to Voltaire’s Candide, a satire that remains as fresh and pertinent today as when it was written in the 18th…
Nigerian born writer Ikhide R. Ikheloa made it a point to ‘diss’ the shortlisted stories for the 2011 Caine Prize, which, by the way, is…