I find Mustapha Enesi’s Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow to be thoughtfully written and I feel it is one most satisfying interpretations of this anthology’s theme. He shows us a woman living with Alzheimer’s whose husband still showers her with affection despite the fact that she often doesn’t remember who he is
Hamza's writing is clear and vivid; the scenes are febrile with fear that can be cut through with a knife. Every time it seemed the sisters would be caught, I held my breath and said a tiny prayer. Hamza's book is one of those books you can't wait to finish so you can experience its end, and yet you pray it does not finish so the experience doesn't end.
Temi's big-yansh-quest announcement, you will discover, is a tool the author uses to get the other women in the book to reflect on their own lives and following these reflections, scandals and secrets leap off their cupboards, regrets cloud their faces and remorse dons modest apparels.
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.
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
Yoruba Boy Running invites us to interrogate the culture and tradition of the Yoruba and their gods as we drink deep from the well of wisdom of these interesting and forward-looking people. It also shows us and reminds us of a part of the slave trade that is not often talked or written about.
Ken Calebs Olumese shines as a beacon of what integrity looks like in the midst of this moral miasma.
But be warned! Living like Ken Calebs Olumese comes with consequences. You will lose fair weather friends (the Nigerian Breweries story is an example) and maybe government patronage but worry not; the man of integrity will always sleep well at night and believe me, you will live to be 80.
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.