This book is a valuable knowledge base for everyone involved in the gas value chain, from students to oil industry workers, technocrats and policy makers as we proceed with our Energy Transition agenda
biefuna’s strategies for survival largely consist of passivity, compliance, patience and conformity. Obiefuna’s life expands as he finds an alternative “chosen family” and is forced to engage with the weaponisation of queerness by the Nigerian political class.
A good place to start would be Bisola Bada’s i am a body of water (Konya Shamsrumi, 2023). Like Ky’s artwork, the poems in Bada’s slim collection are trained on women’s bodies and the absence of the vocabulary of shame is immediately noticeable. Take for instance, these lines in dissimilar bodies:
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The author's switch between the past and present allows us to see how both are intertwined and how despite our best efforts, separating them, most times, is never successful. This literary technique also gives us context and necessary background to current happenings.
Nearly all the men and women in Obinna Udenwe's latest book, 'The Widow Who Died With Flowers in Her Mouth', are mad.
As the title suggests, Osezua’a book chronicles the history of the bride of the hydrocarbons from its very beginning, his role in it and early enthusiasm shown towards a workable national gas policy, the consequences of not tapping into it early enough, the crude politics and power play involved, the betrayals and in-fighting among the big players in the sector.
Adoka Son: Childhood Memoirs of an African by Ad’Obe Obe, is a captivating memoir that transports readers to a bygone...
His thinking is relevant today in northern Nigeria, Afghanistan etc. where the fear of indoctrination contributes to the reasons for keeping children away from ‘western education’ without the requisite investment in a wholistic ‘Islamic education’
The novel follows lovebirds; Ola, who is of Nigerian descent, and Michael, a Ghanaian. The UK-based lovebirds are
digital natives who have benefited from the internet and the social media it enables has been a boon to their careers.
In Stephen McCauley’s latest novel, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, the effervescent charm that marked his debut in...
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a celebrated Nigerian writer and activist, has made an undeniable impact on the world with his memoir, On...