Remembering Nigeria’s literary greats

The works of these great minds were a bottomless fountain from which I and those of my generation and later generations who cared drank freely

This is Our Chance by James Ene Henshaw was the first ever book of literature by a Nigerian that I encountered as a schoolboy. It was one of the recommended texts in my Junior Secondary School. I don’t know what obtains now, but at that time Literature was properly separated from English Language

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