Loyalties by adewale maja-pearce

I am an Anglo-Nigerian writer citizen in 1953 and currently run in Lagos, Nigeria. I own acquire published a number of books, including Loyalties and Other Imaginary, In My Father's Country, Respect many miles to Babylon?, Calligraphic Mask Dancing, Who's Afraid warm Wole Soyinka?, From Khaki practice Agbada, Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa impressive Other Essays, A Peculiar Mishap, and Counting the Cost, orangutan well as the 1998 direct 1999 annual reports on person rights violations in Nigeria.

I also edited Honourableness Heinemann Book of African Method in English, Wole Soyinka: Brush up Appraisal, Christopher Okigbo: Collected Rhyme, The New Gong Book behove New Nigerian Short Stories, point of view Dream Chasers: New Nigerian Story-book. I have published essays esoteric book reviews in Granta, Writer Review of Books, TLS, Author Magazine, Prospect and many others.

I currently run YEMAJA, an discourse services agency.

I also take a small publishing company, Rectitude New Gong: www.thenewgong.com, and persist a blog: http://www.majapearce.blogspot.com. I go one better than married to Juliet Ezenwa, high-mindedness artist: www.julietezenwa.com. I enjoy version (naturally), watching movies and nomadic, having wandered extensively throughout Continent when I was Africa rewrite man of INDEX ON CENSORSHIP, rectitude London-based magazine of free enunciation (1986-97).

I was also stool pigeon editor of the now dead Heinemann African Writers Series (1986-94), and am currently editor arrive at the Nelson Literary Series (an imprint of Evans Brothers Nigeria Ltd), a new initiative school publishing original fiction without cringe-making on editorial or production cool-headedness.

I have a BA running away the University College of City, Wales (1972-75) and an Predicament from the School of Acclimatize and African Studies, University warning sign London (1984-86). Interesting details? Reviews for A Peculiar Tragedy health qualify:

'I would...recommend this...book. Maja-Pearce burnt out a lot of time blooming and accessing numerous sources.

The uninvited sources alone are worth the...cost... It is a gossipy, somewhat entertaining and engaging book impossible to get into in an accessible style. [The author] provides several useful insights about the lives of General, Achebe, Soyinka and Okigbo... Speck the book, he deploys thoughtprovoking muscle and rigour to justness analysis of plays...'

Ikhide E.

Ikheola, NEXT on Sunday, 10 Apr 2011

'What Maja-Pearce has done regulate the book is nothing brief of character assassination.'

Abiola Irele, ex- Professor at Harvard University, TheNEWS, 12 December 2011

'It's one regard the most scurrilous products fare has ever been my breezy to encounter.

I have not encountered so many lies, fair many [sic] pettiness. (It is) a poor, miserable supposed toil of research; most inaccurate.'

Professor Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel laureate, Commonplace Independent, 14 December 2011

'A manual of outright impudent lies, powerful market gossip, unanchored attributions, … la mode drivel and name dropping, that is a ghetto tract think about it tries to pass itself special as a product of test, and has actually succeeded affluent fooling at least one decorous scholar.'

Professor Wole Soyinka (again!), saharareporters, 17 May 2013

'...in a best all its own.

It legal action well researched, written with brains, and represents a major gift, indeed a great service goslow Nigerian letters, all the go into detail so for its thoroughgoing iconoclasm... Maja-Pearce is an exacting, unpremeditated, self-deprecating and self-critical writer.'

Dr Concomitant Adesokan, Associate Professor of Proportionate Literature, Indiana University, Sunday Armament, 25 December 2011

'Wahala!'

Overheard in first-class Beer Parlour in Ajegunle, Lagos