Guerrilla Journalist, 320 pages long and published by Babafemi Ojudu could have been better edited. Writers are notorious for not liking their work to be edited but every writer needs the detachment of an editor. It is a major flaw that the book has no index – it is impossible to find with ease, invaluable references to people and events.
Book Review
Odafen’s novel raises critical posers: Is it right for a husband to feel slighted because his father-in-law bought his wife a car without informing him first? Why do some men find it easy to turn their wives into punching bags? Does corporal punishment bring about good behaviour in a woman? Why does a generation of mothers justify the domestic abuse of their daughters? What are a woman’s primary responsibilities?
Nkowo’s resilience becomes the heart of the novel. Despite being shunned and cursed, she chooses to leave Ayam village with her daughters, venturing into the unknown. Her unwavering faith provides her with strength as she navigates rejection, poverty, and fear. Her journey in the city reveals her resourcefulness and tenacity.
Given that the Nigerian judiciary, like many other organizations in the world, has its merits and demerits, this article posits that the delineated judicial anomalies that surround Gbadamosi Eletu vs Ojomu’s case are not sufficient to “de-market” the entire Nigerian judicial system as being “criminal”.
Things take a scary turn from there onwards and the world Turaki plunges us into is no longer familiar. The things that occur are the sort that make us scream and wonder where we are being led. Though we still see Jos and its streets, churches and other landmarks, the goings on aren’t what we are accustomed to.
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.
There is a lot of loss recorded in this book, which is very telling of how this desire and longing to hold on to something we cannot control and the loss of such things causes us to spiral in different directions and to find stability only when the gap is filled. At the core of this book is the fight for the truth and all the obstacles that stand in the way of that
It appears as though one construct that continues to fascinate Yishau’s intellect is the duality…
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.
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