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.
Book 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.
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
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.
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.
Adoka Son: Childhood Memoirs of an African by Ad’Obe Obe, is a captivating memoir that…
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:
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’
With almost 1,000 book, music, movie, and sundry reviews and essays published over the past four (4) years, we remain resolute in our belief that reviews offer us the first critical engagement with a work of art, books, movies, music, plays etc, because they help shape opinion, excite conversation, and push engagement.As we enter our 5th year, we remain committed to providing a unique space for interrogating our literary and artistic output and providing a handle for the audience and those in the academia to assess these works of literature and art.
The novel follows lovebirds; Ola, who is of Nigerian descent, and Michael, a Ghanaian. The UK-based lovebirds are
digital natives who have benefited from the internet and the social media it enables has been a boon to their careers.
The author’s switch between the past and present allows us to see how both are intertwined and how despite our best efforts, separating them, most times, is never successful. This literary technique also gives us context and necessary background to current happenings.
In Stephen McCauley’s latest novel, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, the effervescent charm…