It feels great to announce that our own, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has very recently been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize. This Prize is named after Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate. You may wonder what the PEN Pinter Prize is about. It is an award that honors writers that have worked to […]
Chimamanda’s Boldness Won Her the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize
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Call For Submissions- Yale Drama Series Competition
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So we’ve decided it will be great to keep you updated with Literary submissions that you might be interested in. And below are a few. The Yale Drama Series Competition Yale Drama Series is right now accepting submissions for Plays written in English for it’s 2019 Playwriting Competiton. Entries for the 2019 competition must be […]
Interested In Winning a 15-Minute Conversation With Omoni Oboli?
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So, we all know Omoni Oboli recently released her book, “The Stars Are Ageless” If you haven’t read it, you need to. Because only those who have read this book will be able to answer the questions. If you’re wondering what the book is like, you can read the review here. How to Participate If […]
Omoni Oboli’s “The Stars Are Ageless” Is the Icing On the Cake!
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I’m not a fan of memoirs. I’ve never been one. But then, there are times I come across some, and depending on the content, I found them really insightful, educative, motivating and sometimes, entertaining. However, Omoni Oboli’s “The Stars Are Ageless,” is the total icing on the cake. The moment I started, I didn’t want […]
Participate In the 2018 Young & Cerebral Essay Competition
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Young & Cerebral, a brand aimed at empowering, inspiring and giving a voice to the youth is declaring its annual Essay Competition for the year 2018 open. This year’s topics are centered on the core belief of the Young & Cerebral brand; Personal Fulfilment through Self-Actualization. The aim is to connect with and engage youths […]
With Over 1 Million Downloads, OkadaBooks Is Certainly For You!
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We’re in the middle of the year now and we just decided it would be nice to shed more light on our company, changes, achievements and what next. Being a digital publisher in a country where the saying, “Nigerians Don’t Read,” is the order of the day, one would wonder how we have found our […]
“I Make a Whole Lot More From OkadaBooks”- Best Selling Author, Sally Kenneth Dadzie
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Sally Kenneth Dadzie is a writer, a blogger, a wife, a mother, and an Okadabooks bestselling author. She’s also been named one of Nigeria’s most influential writers under 40. In 2017, she won the award for ‘Fiction Writer of the Year,’ at the Nigerian Writers Awards. When she’s not writing, she teams up with […]