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Book 24, 2022: ' Born on A Tuesday ' by Elnathan John.

Review: Born on a Tuesday

From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines. In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are…

#NEWPOST How to be a politician | an excerpt from by @elnathan_john's new book, Becoming Nigerian

[Excerpt from Elnathan John’s new book, “Becoming Nigerian; A Guide”, published by Cassava Republic press]

The biggest mistake any person interested in politics can make is to apply rules generally applicable to regular human beings to Nigeria. Often, Nigerians in the diaspora wishing to return home to enter politics assume that just because they are black or have a green passport, they can…

“Le silence règne dans la chambre tandis que nous tentons de disposer les matelas pour dormir. Je sais que ce n’est pas de sa faute mais j’en veux à mon père de nous avoir envoyés dans des écoles différentes. Je trouve ça effrayant de ne pas me souvenir de son visage quand j’ai envie d’être en colère contre lui. Je me souviens de lui, des choses qu’il disait, de sa voix forte, mais dans ma tête son visage est dénué d’expression.  Ça me paraît tellement étrange d’être dans la mêm pièce que mes frères, qui savent beaucoup de choses que j’ignore.”

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Né un mardi / Elnathan John ; traduit de l’anglais (Nigeria) par Céline Schwaller. Editions Métailié, 2018.

Nigerian Novelist Elnathan John Makes Jury For Man Booker Prize 2019

Nigerian novelist, satirist, writer and lawyer, Elnathan John whose stories have twice been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, has been selected as one of the judges for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.

The announcement came yesterday even as submissions for the 2019 prize were open.

Chaired by Bettany Hughes, award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, the judging…

HOW TO BE A NIGERIAN WRITER by Elnathan John

You know the value of books. The process of making them intrigues you. You want your name on the front cover of a book and, like an earthworm inches through dirt into the ground, you want to make your way into people’s homes, heads and hearts. I am here to help you achieve that.

  First, you must look the part. It is important to look like an African writer. Find multi-coloured kampala fabric and…

Author Elnathan John shared a few tweets yesterday about the difficulty some Nigerians have had in understanding the idea of consent and why some scenarios can be classified as rape even when there isn’t any direct violence.

In his tweets, he likened being raped to being force-fed at a restaurant and it is pretty apt.

Read his tweets below.

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Elnathan John Goes to Kosewe #ElnathanInKenya

Perhaps if we had not spent the rest of the afternoon at the United Kenya Club restaurant talking, then we would have noticed just how far gone the sun was. But then this is Elnathan. The man at the center of all conversation. He is nothing unlike anything I had expected him to be. From the photos I had seen online, I could have sworn on my unborn daughter’s umbilical cord that he was nothing…