It was American singer and songwriter Marilyn Manson who said that music is the strongest form of magic. If magic...
In These Letters End In Tears, the Cameroonian author Musih Tedji Xaviere plants her flag on the mountain top of...
The opening chapters are thick with blood, dust, and sweat, evoking all the violent imagery these elements often conjure. They suggest a dark, complex narrative, one whose conclusion may be fraught with complications. Pain and death are hinted at, drawing the reader in with an irresistible pull to uncover more.
With A Spell of Good Things, Ayobami Adebayo surpasses herself and her debut, Stay With Me. For starters, the author...
It is by turns a brutally honest, funny and sad collection, with a wistful thread that goes through it
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Vintage, UK. Random House, 2005, 445pp With recent elections in Edo and Ondo...
In reflecting upon Uche Okeke’s paintings, poems and drawings collected under the handle, Art In Development – A Nigerian Perspective,...
It’s now almost a week since Prince Harry’s memoir Spare was published and what thrillingly hectic days they’ve been: hard...
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.
“Promposal,” a term born within the last dozen or so years, is exactly what one would imagine it to be:...
In telling this important story, Riding the Storm becomes more than a record of events. It is a meditation on leadership under pressure, on Africa’s capacity for self-organisation, and on what it means to act decisively when history accelerates. Kan’s prose allows the reader to feel the anxiety of the early days, the urgency of closed-door negotiations, and the quiet triumph of systems
Interestingly, the strongest story in the collection - the titular Where Women Meet Boys - is one of two narratives written from the female perspective and showcases Shyaka’s skill with handling multiple perspectives. At its heart, it is about the domino effects of a man disappointing his family and so, still falls in line with the book’s overarching theme.
