Whatever the reasons were, Chikwe took over at NCDC, fought for the institution to have legal legs to stand on with the enactment of the NCDC Act of 2018; digitised the operations of the center, trained staff and built capacity both human, technological and mechanical to bring an end to over-reliance on parachute researchers, donors and UN agencies and made the center a world class facility.
Book Review
There is a new hard-hitting book on my desk entitled This Fiction Called Nigeria: The…
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who teaches a woman that one day her body will betray her? That her breastmilk…
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
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.