Biodun Jeyifo, a Nigerian academic and literary critic, was buried in his hometown in Ibadan, Oyo State’s capital, on ...

ON the morning of February 11, Professor Biodun Jeyifo transitioned into immortality. Within hours, tributes poured in from former students across Nigeria, from colleagues at Cornell University, from ...

Does literature merely reflect the world or actually shape the future? British writer Peter Boxall from Cambridge University answered this question during his lecture, “The Possibility of Literature,” ...

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In a statement signed by its Executive Director/CEO, Motunrayo Alaka, on Thursday, the centre said it was “deeply saddened to receive reports of the passing of Biodun Jeyifo, fondly called BJ, an ...

A statement by the President of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Prof. Andrew Haruna, said Jeyifo, fondly called BJ, died yesterday, barely a month after he turned 80. Until his passing, Jeyifo ...

Professor Emeritus Biodun Jeyifo, a Nigerian academic and literary critic widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, has died. He was 80. The President of the ...

In its announcement, the academy reflected on Jeyifo’s decades-long association with the institution and his standing as one of Nigeria’s most accomplished literary critics. The Nigerian Academy of ...

Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success? By George Monaghan “Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Harold Bloom and James Wood. And now you?” “Oh, ...

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Award-winning academic and Guyana Prize recipient David Dabydeen says he has been officially nominated for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature by European and Chinese scholars, making this one of the ...

I WANT to talk about the historical interpretation of literature — that is, about the interpretation of literature in its social, economic, and political aspects. To begin with, it will be worth while ...