Great Reads from Around the Internet: May 6, 2013

A round-up of literary and Nigeria-centric articles for your reading pleasure:

Governor Fashola of Lagos recently delivered a speech in the USA on Lagos's development - thoughts?
A library encouraging patrons to make their stories part of its collection
"When whatever forces put you down, you don't stay down" - words of wisdom from Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (and an excerpt from his novel In the House of the Interpreter) - his first novel Weep Not, Child is one of our books of the week
Could you survive an entire year without the internet? This man did.
And finally, a quiz to wake your brain cells up - guess the Nobel Prize for Literature winners by their citations

What are you reading today? Let us know in the comments or tweet us with the hashtag #GreatReads!