In a city defined by its restless creative energy, 24-year-old Nnamani Grace Odi is building the scaffolding to support it....
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The memoir progressively comes off as an album of eclectic cuts. If “Signs of Our Redemption” burns bright as the bold anthem chronicling the #EndSARS saga, “Don't Cry For Me, Argentina” is the wistful paean for diminished talents and dreams (“Nigeria happens to the best of us…”), while “And Always Remember Them” stands out as a poetic and elegiac tribute to the fiery season of 2020 (“It is the forgotten who are truly dead” p. 192). David's use of “We remember them” as a refrain in that chapter creates a hypnotic, incantatory rhythm that sustains emotional accumulation.
The Ambassador of Denmark to Nigeria, Jens Ole Bach Hansen, praised Abana’s work for its ability to build bridges not only between Denmark and Nigeria, but between Europe and Africa. In a similar vein, Abdulkareem Baba Aminu, COO of Spine and Label Bookshop and former news editor at Daily Trust, lauded the enduring appeal of Season of Crimson Blossoms and encouraged Northern Nigerian creatives to follow both Abana and Ibrahim’s examples
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