habila造句

• Moving to England in 2002, Habila became the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
• Some of his former students, like the writer Helon Habila, have gone on to distinguished careers.
• The anthology included works by the most renowned contemporary Nigerian writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila.
• In his early days, Habila grew up reading Nigerian books in Pacesetters series, which was popular pan-African fiction mostly about crime in urban areas.
• Ehikhamenor's art and photographs have been used for editorials as well as cover art on books by authors such as Chimamanda Adichie, Helon Habila and Chika Unigwe.
• Helon Habila has noted : " One imagines immediately the loneliness that must have gnawed at these immigrants whose memory of their sunny, convivial island communities was their only refuge at such moments.
• Critically acclaimed writers of a younger generation include Chris Abani, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen Oyeyemi, Nnedi Okorafor, Kachi A . Ozumba, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Chika Unigwe.
• Habila won the Music Society of Nigeria ( MUSON ) national poetry award for his poem " Another Age " in 2000, the same year his short story collection " Prison Stories " was published.
• African Writers Trust is governed by its Advisory Board, currently ( as of 2011 ) composed of Zakes Mda, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Ayeta Anne Wangusa, Helon Habila, Mildred Barya, and Aminatta Forna.
• He was the founding organizer of the BookJam reading series in Lagos, Nigeria, which featured the writers Jude Dibia, Michela Wrong, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Binyavanga Wainaina, Helon Habila and Tsitsi Dangarembga, among others.
• Helon Habila has called the book's opening line ( " " I got my things and left " " ) " the coolest opening line in African fiction " as well as being " a fair summary of the writer's life ."
• Father Habila Daboh, a priest at St . Joseph's, said many in his church feared Muslims may try to impose Islamic laws _ such as a ban on alcohol and headscarfs for women _ on them, despite the insistence to the contrary by the state government.
• Father Habila Daboh, a priest at St . Joseph's, said many in his church feared Muslims may try to impose Islamic laws _ such as headscarfs for women and a ban on alcohol _ on them, despite the insistence to the contrary by the state government.
• It has featured the works of Wole Soyinka, Segun Afolabi, Uche James Iroha, Funmi Iyanda, Dinaw Mengestu, Barbara Murray, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Helon Habila, Tosin Oshinowo, Patrice Nganang, Jide Alakija, and a plethora of other writers and graphical artists.
• 8 January-The Sudan Revolutionary Front ( SRF ) announced that the combined forces of the Sudan People s Liberation Movement-North ( SPLM-N ) and the Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Abdel Wahid El Nur, on Wednesday destroyed the military garrison of Dalami, Habila locality, in South Kordofan.
• Among notable authors published by the company are Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Lola Shoneyin, Teju Cole, Helon Habila, Elnathan John, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Mi
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• Habila is a founding member and currently serves on the advisory board of African Writers Trust, " a non-profit entity which seeks to coordinate and bring together African writers in the Diaspora and writers on the continent to promote sharing of skills and other resources, and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups ."
• A whole new generation of African writers  Caine prize winners Binyavanga Wainaina ( current director of the Chinua Achebe Center at Bard College ) and Helon Habila ( " Waiting for an Angel " [ 2004 ] and " Measuring Time " [ 2007 ] ); as well as Uzodinma Iweala ( " Beasts of No Nation " [ 2005 ] ); and Professor Okey Ndibe ( " Arrows of Rain " [ 2000 ] ) count Chinua Achebe as a significant influence.
• For Blackass is a strange, compelling novel, and Barrett has something to tell us all . " Writing in " The Guardian ", Helon Habila said : " Igoni Barrett s greatest asset is his ability to satirise the ridiculous extents people, especially Lagosians, go to in order to appear important . " Claire Fallon for the " Huffington Post " concluded : " Blackass is a blunt, transparently written novel  the kind that makes the reader feel as though they re standing inside the skin of the character, going about his day with him  and though the topic could easily be that of a polemic, it s also a subtle, circumspect novel about the intersecting, sometimes mutually exclusive needs humans have for family and connection, and for status and power . " Aaron Bady of " OkayAfrica " calls it " the most unapologetically Nigerian book that American publishers have published in a long time, and as the'Afropolitan'has become an increasingly omnipresent strand of contemporary African literature, there has been a steady backlash, both against the Afropolitan as such, and against the entire category of African immigrant literature.