by Divine Okorie | May 15, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
Miracle, in all senses, is a happenstance outside the abilities of human nature that is utterly extraordinary in its effectuation. In the making of a miracle, despite the involvement of humans as recipients of miracles, the constellation of powers that make it is...
by Ugochukwu Anadị | Apr 22, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
Christ and Eze Obioha Okonkwo, the tragic hero of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, went to death uninvinted. With a rope in his hand, Death must have wondered when its relationship with humans, fraught with mutual spite, became so convivial that Okonkwo now...
by Ugochukwu Anadị | Mar 11, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
‘Femi Morgan’s Renegade is a collection of sixty-one poems divided into five parts stitched together by the existential angst the poem persona harbours against poets and other harbingers of words. In the first section, a collection of ‘Selected...
by Divine Okorie | Mar 3, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
Mek We Yan (Notes for Naija Pidgin & English Language) by Eriata Oribhabor is published by Something for Everybody Ventures (SFEV) in the year 2020. Eriata Oribhabor’s book on pidgin language, Mek We Yan, is a repository of a nation’s sickness,...
by Ugochukwu Anadị | Feb 12, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
Spanning through twelve rhythmic poems, ‘Of Politics and Power,’ the first part of Olumide Olaniyan’s debut collection of poetry, Lucidity of Absurdity, confronts the state of politics, politicians, rulers and the ruled in the poet’s country,...
by Ugochukwu Anadị | Jan 25, 2023 | Reviews & Essays
On the 14th of January, 2023, the Centre for Memories-Ncheta Ndigbo, Enugu, Nigeria hosted the Nigerian author, Chima Nwoke, for a book reading/meet-the-author event. Chima Nwoke was invited to read his debut collection of short stories titled Amaechi: The Past, the...
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