Who teaches a woman that one day her body will betray her? That her breastmilk will not flow after parturition?...
Jaq, the novel is a fast paced read that references the TV series and ends in much the same way while also managing to introduce fresh plot twists and characters.
But through the litany of doom and gloom shines the bright light of hope as Cory Booker insists on “resurrecting hope” while Michelle Obama riffs on the imperative of not shrinking to fit stereotypes.
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:
Ultimately, the Soyinka versus Obidients rift is mostly an intergenerational spat even as their derision of Soyinka’s Nobel Prize for Literature continues. Many, including Obidients, will argue, however, that it’s a fight for justice
Like the ending of 'The Fishermen' and 'An Orchestra of Minorities', Obioma performs magic with the conclusion of this hard-hitting triumph of a novel called 'The Road To The Country' which is also the title of a 2015 poem he published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s ‘Small Worlds’: A poetic experiment that requires patience- Olukorede S Yishau
With this highly-experimental work, the author shows that we can have our own small worlds devoid of crowds. Two people can make a small world and a whole world of difference.
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’
