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Wilde’s novel left the realm of fiction or the object world to invade and destroy the life of its writer in a gothic unimaginable manner. He was persecuted for being an openly gay man based on the ‘evidence’ of his work as exacerbated by a personal flamboyant lifestyle. https://www.mtls.ca/issue24/amatoritsero-ede/

Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS Call for Submission: Special Issue on Harry Garuba (1958-2020) - Deadline 30 September 2020 ... After the generation of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and John Bekederemo-Clark, Harry Garuba, as a world-renowned scholar and poet in Ibadan where he also led the Thursday group of poets, was at the bridgehead of a new wave of Nigerian Literary culture and scholarship since the 1980s till his passing in February 2020. For over 30 years, he sponsored, mentored, taught, supported and befriended that new generation. Always self-effacing, he never took or sought credit for his intellectual and moral generosity, a palpable example of which was the 1987 poetry anthology, Voices from the Fringe, which he organized and edited. This work is a formal introduction of the third generation of Nigerian writers to the literary world. In the area of scholarship Garuba’s quiet but powerful intelligence and erudite influence is widespread. His academic essays are landmarks of rigorous postcolonial enquiry within a global school culture. Garuba inspired and straddled the scholarly, writerly and social worlds of a visionary generation of intellectuals. The Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS, calls for submissions from Garuba's colleagues, friends and acquaintances in the scholarly and creative world - especially the ‘Thursday Group of poets’ - about his life and work in the form of poetry, essays scholarly and otherwise anecdotes or even prose fiction. These submissions will be published in MTLS and later collected into an anthology in the future. Submissions should be sent online through MTLS submissions form at https://www.mtls.ca/issue24/submissions/ or emailed to [email protected]>. The submission deadline has been extended to 30 September 2020.

The citizens of the kingdom would dwell upon this time-tested traditionthe stamping of the deceased’s left buttockfor hours at home, in cafes, and in offices. Compared to this topic, all other topics were considered frivolous and insignificant. Scholars would write highbrow theses and hold weekly international seminars in which a galaxy of intellectuals delivered longwinded speeches on the beauty and philosophy of stamping the deceased’s left buttock. https://www.mtls.ca/issue24/habib-mohana/