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Food is the unifying theme here, but categorizing Anyadu’s writing style into one genre can be a challenging undertaking seeing as his range spans comedy, folklore, and the Gothic. Not only is Anyadu’s literary palate diverse, he deploys multiple points of view in the manner of a seasoned chef deciding which cooking technique would maximise an ingredient’s flavour.
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Food Is Served: A Review of “A Meal Is A Meal” by Nnamdi Anyadu – Akumbu Uche
...A Meal Is A Meal, Narrative Landscape Press; 2025, pp. 138
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My Father’s Shadow is not a film that tells you what to think about 1993 or about Nigeria’s long arc of disappointments. It’s a film that teaches you how to feel history: to smell it, taste it, hold it against your ribs. It’s a portrait of a father whose love is messy and incomplete, and a nation whose promises frequently arrive late or not at all.
For a movie that runs for two hours, its pacing is incredibly rushed, with timelines not clearly delineated. Jaiye proposes to Adaora within two months of dating her, and they get married with very little on-screen chemistry allowed to truly develop. What is even more implausible is how such a successful business woman is forced into such a naïve and juvenile arrangement, where she cannot spot the glaring ulterior motive, external pressures be damned.
Besides that, the album is well-curated and Bella Shmurda's collaborators perform remarkably, helping him achieve his purpose. “This kind of music is my essence, it's my purpose,” Bella Shmurda said in a video before the album was released. “The greatest war is sanity…it's a battle with yourself."
At 23 tracks, the album overextends itself, disrupting the intensity and ferocity that defined its opening half. Trimmed down to a lean 10–12 tracks, The Machine could have been a focused, tightly wound project. Instead, its sprawl dulls its edge. And by the time the final track, “HALLELUJAH,” featuring Phyno, Jeriq, and Tobe Nwigwe, rolls in, we are torn between joining the celebration and simply sighing with relief that the album has finally ended.
This project is a celebration of his influence and a declaration of his untouchable status. By curating, composing, and directing rather than merely producing, Sarz proves that the title of the album is less hyperbole than prophecy. And even though he doesn’t voice the record, his perspective as well as his personal one is thoroughly reflected.
David Szalay is the recent winner of the Booker Prize, an honour he received at a dinner in London on Monday, 10 November 2025 for his novel, Flesh. The novel begins with Istvan as a lonely boy living in a...
Food is the unifying theme here, but categorizing Anyadu’s writing style into one genre can be a challenging undertaking seeing as his range spans comedy, folklore, and the Gothic. Not only is Anyadu’s literary palate diverse, he deploys multiple points of view in the manner of a seasoned chef deciding which cooking technique would maximise an ingredient’s flavour.
Through their entangled stories, Theft becomes more than a tale of love or parental betrayal. It is a sociological portrait of Zanzibar and, by extension, Africa’s coastal societies, where the residues of colonialism still shape personal destinies. The novel situates individual choices within the larger machinery of economic transformation, cultural expectation, and historical memory.
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Food Is Served: A Review of “A Meal Is A Meal” by Nnamdi Anyadu – Akumbu Uche
...A Meal Is A Meal, Narrative Landscape Press; 2025, pp. 138
