Overnight literary success can take more than 10 years to happen. If you don’t believe me, ask Ike Anya, medical...
Burma Boy, Biyi Bandele, Farafina, 212pp, Of two abiding mysteries of war, the first is that men who have seen...
Afi Tekple and her mother are made homeless and driven to poverty following the untimely death of her civil servant...
How Autocracy Shaped Our Democracy – A review of Max Siollun’s “Soldiers of Fortune” – Najib Kazaure
As Nigeria tethers on the edge with insistent clamouring and dire prognostications, we take a look at a book which...
At the Chrisland Primary School, Lagos where Kafayat Shafau, who would years later become Kafayat Shafau-Ameh, began her elementary education,...
I devoted my weekend to devouring Aremo Olusegun Osoba’s autobiography: Battlelines – Adventures In Journalism And Politics. I want to...
Olukorede Yishau’s Vault of Secrets is a robust offering of ten short stories that explore motifs of secrecy, infidelity, cosmopolitanism...
During the pandemic, my walking path in Berkeley, Calif., trailed past the Seabreeze encampment where a number of the city’s...
In his award-winning collection of short stories Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree, NiqMhlongo has collaged a portrait of the peri-urban...
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.
What is the purpose of fiction? Is it to remember? To elicit empathy? Or to pass the time? Depending on...
On Sunday July 3, 2020, Samuel Monye’s debut novel, Give us Each Day, was announced as one of the 11...
