Month: August 2026

In Jazz Negotiations, Echezonachukwu Nduka Scores a Symphony Out of Silence – Sima Essien

Ultimately, the poems of Jazz Negotiations celebrate music, sound, and the possibilities of language as they entwine intimately with every corner of existence. To read these poems is to appreciate the ingenuity of the collection’s structure, the depth and wisdom interlaced with melodic exhortation, the effortless movement from reverence to activism to observation to philosophy, so that one is ferried across borders: from protest to testimony, from recital to homage, from dirge to rapture.

Movie Review: A Happy Ending – Akumbu Uche

His  predilection for nuance is also admirable evinced by how he makes Tatiana and Ginika worldly but still vulnerable, and how he resists the temptation to frame their quest for financial independence as a desire borne out of profound desperation. Unfortunately, his over reliance on dialogue over wordless interactions for exposition suggests a distrust of the audience’s capability for discernment.

‘Come In’: A Review of ‘With Love From Home’- Keyukemi Usani

The seven exhibiting artists seem to have laid their lives out on canvas and other media. The works etched into permanence –whether it is in the stains of coffee on paper, the framing of a painting, or even in the fixture of a makeshift football field–have a way of transporting and transfixing simultaneously, heightening the experience.