Harrison Okhueleigbe’s Under the moonlight starts like the shaky, unsure steps of a toddler. “My mum was standing by the...
The first impression one gets reading through the first few chapters of Bridget Oyefeso-Odusami’s book is: this is like a...
Sons of a Priest is a book big in size, profound in content, diverse in its views and as complex...
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."
Umukoro blends an authentic voice with emotional honesty, inviting readers into a world that feels both relatable and transformative. The characters wrestle with identity, change, and belonging in ways that resonate deeply.
What Happened to Janet Uzor | Miracle Emeka-Nkwor | Masobe Books, 2021 | 234 A Young Adulty mystery novel by...
Guerrilla Journalist, 320 pages long and published by Babafemi Ojudu could have been better edited. Writers are notorious for not liking their work to be edited but every writer needs the detachment of an editor. It is a major flaw that the book has no index – it is impossible to find with ease, invaluable references to people and events.
If the life of the Igbo was a puzzle, Linus Emelonye’s anthology of poems, The Funeral of the Igboman has...
James Eze, former Literary Editor of the Sunday Sun (Nigeria), former banker, well-known organizer of literary events and current Chief...
E.C. Osondu’s latest novel, When The Sky Is Ready The Stars Will Appear, is peopled with men and women who...
Resistance, as Okungbowa portrays it, is a refusal to accept and live by propaganda. To erase a people is to deny their history, to make it seem like they never existed at all.
What is the purpose of fiction? Is it to remember? To elicit empathy? Or to pass the time? Depending on...
