The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War…The Aftermath by Alexander A. Madiebo; ArtRelated Limited, Lagos; 2022; 495pp When this book,...
All things being equal, the U.S. edition of ‘Fine Boys’, a novel by Eghosa Imasuen, will be released this month...
For a country perched on the horn of a continent, it is easy for Eritrea to slip into the ocean...
Holding up to its title, the book is a repository of memories, with events presented as clearly as they occurred or perhaps as a figment of one’s imagination. Chukwudera’s Loss is an Aftertaste of Memory is a time capsule that exists just for the sake of being
In her colourful descriptions, there are hints of Fetto’s second career as a fashion journalist. (She is the style editor at British Vogue and the author of Palette, a beauty bible for black women.) Like Erving Goffman who penned The Presentation of Self, Fetto’s radar is attuned to how people employ clothes and cosmetics in crafting their personal narratives and the varying results.
Following the announcement of celebrated columnist, Niran Adedokun’s new book, The Danfo Driver in All of Us, we present Toni...
The foremost devotion of a poet is to language. He spends his literary vocation striving to achieve a measure of...
Will Affliction Arise a Second Time?: A Review of Lola Akinmade’s ‘Bitter Honey’— Olukorede S Yishau
What manner of a man is Lars? How should a mother handle a daughter who looks so much like her...
Displaying the journalist's gift for interlocution, Lara led Teju Cole to speak about the long hiatus that spanned the release of his second novel, Open City and Tremor, his third.
Responding, Mr. Cole noted that "I procrastinated by making, like, six books in between Open City and Tremor. I think it was a search for form. When you work in fiction you just don't pick a form off the shelf."
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.
Eunice Orji’s book; “The Beauty of Sex in Marriage” should be required reading for every couple planning to get married...
I stumbled on Odili Ujubuonu’s Crows of the Yellow Stream on Amazon. I was instantly drawn to the word “Crows”...
