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Rumblings of My Inner Thoughts written by Yinka Adeboye is a collection of love poems that abounds in metaphor and African imagery. It depicts the fears and hopes as well as the joys and heartaches...
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LIKE most intellectuals of his day in the 1980s and the 1990s in Nigerian universities, who were fiercely radical and marxist in thinking, Omotoso had had to relocate when the scorching heat of the...
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Arrows of Rain is a fascinating satirical allegory that reveals in gory details the terrible effect of military rule in a country named Madia in the novel, but which is, in fact, a thinly disguised...
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Dimoma-I want to take a trip down Memory Lane today. I do. It is not a path alien to me. But I wonder why I still slip and fall as I meander through this route. It beats me to know that I have not...
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Chibundu Onuzo (21), author of the Spider King's Daughter is a distinguished ambassador of Nigeria. At a ceremony in Parliament early this year, she was voted the best Black student in 2012...
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Enmeshed in a passionate affair for books and Geography, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, 25 year old final year Ph.d at the London School of Economics is author of the blog: book shy: An African booklover. Her...
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“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires an unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious” Alfred North Whitehead, (English mathematician and...
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An interesting turn in contemporary Nigerian writing is that Nigerian writers who have relocated to other nations are preoccupying themselves with the social realities of their adopted nations. Their...
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Historical novels come with spoilers because the readers already know how the stories are going to end and yet the genre is popular enough to be read and reviewed like the classic movies and comedy...
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Mokwugo: one sent by God to compensate his parents for the loss of children born before.
The fearless freedom fighter and firebrand
strode on to the independence stage in his twenties,
with the...
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Part 1:I passed through Thursday, December 15, 2011 with mixed feelings. The first of those feelings was that of sadness. I was sad because the day was the fifth anniversary of the death...
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My heart sank deep inside the bottomless pit as I helplessly watched the specimen in front of me. “Haipyy Baidaay Mine Loves” was slobbered - in an ill-fitting combination of pink, green...
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