Nigerian Novelist Waives Award in Protest
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One of Africa's most famous writers has rejected a Nigerian national honors award, protesting conditions in the West African nation and saying renegades were trying to turn his home state into "a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom."
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The Nigerian government on Thursday  canceled an advert it had placed on U.S. television channel CNN  because of a report broadcast last week about militants holding  hostages in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.
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Lagos - Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Wednesday that Britain was &quot;sorry&quot; if people were upset over the award of a kinghthood to writer Salman Rushdie, but insisted it was given for his literary canon.
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Legal moves against Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in Nigeria are dropped freeing him to run in polls next year.
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"The vast majority of the money we've seen has been for Adichie. Punters reckon it's in the bag"  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the Orange Prize, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. via Scotsman.com
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Nigerian Chimamanda Adichie says she did not expect to win the Orange Prize for Fiction, despite being favourite.
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Nigeria&#39;s largest labor union is on strike to protest the rising prices of fuel in Africa&#39;s largest oil-producing country, defying a court order declaring the labor action illegal.
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A Nigerian court has voided a report of the country's anti-graft agency which indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a business associate of corruption.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 21 -- A leading Turkish author was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touches on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
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Man Booker International Prize winner Chinua Achebe pioneered Nigeria's literary contributions.
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A Nigerian court on Monday rejected a legal challenge by the country's main opposition leader against the landslide victory of President Olusegun Obasanjo in last year's presidential elections.
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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A row over TV rights for the African Cup of Nations could stop Nigerians from watching the tournament.
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government in Nigeria in protest at the &quot;dangerous&quot; state of the country, newspapers have reported. Problem With Nigeria&quot;, rejected the award in a two-page letter addressed to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Libel charges against a Kenyan journalist are dropped, after his lawyers said they were an attack on press freedom.