Just like BM Dzukogi’s “These Last Tears”, “Talking Drum” by Damilola Sodiq Sanusi addresses the social issues that engulf his...
Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize winning book Girl, Woman, Other has a ‘thang’. The cliché would be to say it...
From Minna, the literary capital of Nigeria (you can argue with your ancestors on this) arrives a poetry volume from...
“Michael Ajose was only twelve years old when he decided that he wanted a wife.” From that promising first line,...
It takes tremendous courage for a Nigerian woman to engage in an open love affair with another woman. The act...
Apotheosis of Ironsi Ironsi – The Army, Power And Politics by Chuks Iloegbunam; Eminent Biographies (EB), Awka, Nigeria; 2019; 298pp...
MADAGALI is typical of many of Okediran’s fictional works, with its copious research, cliff hanger suspense, realistic settings and topicality....
In her second book written with “enough rage to fuel a rocket,” Mona Eltahawy unburdens the seven virtuous sins that...
Madagali is a story of love in a time of war. Bukar, a young lance corporal in the Nigerian army,...
I completed my first Nigerian fiction reading for the year 2020 in a hotel in Lagos, a continuation of a...
Fleeing violence and political crises in parts of the Middle East as well as poverty and economic challenges in Africa,...
Welcome to Leye Adenle’s Lagos where, a few pages into the plot, the prologue in fact, a private jet, with...