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In Flora’s Love Colony, Oburumu Probes History with Lyrical Density & Poetic Range – Sima Essien

When we arrive at “Part II: Fusion, the fragments,” the poems put up a tougher resistance to surface-level interpretation, inviting one rather into a celebration of language that walks the balance between cryptic chaos and lyrical rapture. Here, the poet contemplates the paradox of the Nigerian spirit that insists on excellence amidst crippling dysfunction, while still finding solace in family, love, literature and music.

“Agbara Nla: The Return” Review: Faith, Fear, and the Weight of Nostalgia – Joseph Jonathan

Damilola’s screenplay largely meets the challenge. Characters are introduced coherently, the villain receives motivation beyond mere menace, and the central dramatic question (what happens when a community’s spiritual infrastructure is dismantled from within?) is developed with seriousness. The Saul-to-Paul arc at the film’s moral centre gives the narrative a shape that the original episodic production was never required to provide.

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”