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My phone sat between my hands, with fingers hovering over the lit screen. At the other end is my Kenyan friend, “typing.” And then my screen flushes with her text.…More
Book: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Author: Warsan Shire ‘I don’t know when love became elusive. What I know is: no one I know has it’. If this…More
Book: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress Author: Ogenna Ojukwu With his debut novel, Ogenna Ojukwu leads the reader through the complicated life of Onyeka; teacher and vice-principal hopeful,…More
Buying books in Nigeria is one of the numerous problems of any Nigerian who loves to read and collect good books. For years, we’ve been stuck with really old bookshops…More
Book: Tomorrow Died Yesterday Author: Chimeka Garrick There is always that one book sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust and all sorts of disrespect by being passed over for…More
With an original take on speculative, dystopian, fantastical, magical realism and any other term that stands for ‘knocks the breath out of you’, Lesley Nneka Arimah has spun a collection of short stories in such a spectacular and intelligent manner that will stay with us for a very long time.
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Book: Homegoing Author: Yaa Gyasi With her heart wrenching and ambitious debut, Yaa Gyasi has written a story that unfolds into six generations of the consequences of the actions of…More
On the 10th of March 2018 at the Subterranea, Ilupeju, Dami Ajayi launched his second volume of poems – A Woman’s Body is a Country. The book launch, convened by…More
Poetry Chapbook – Beautiful, One Author – REZthaPoet REZthaPoet, Adebola Afolabi, has published a poetry chapbook titled ‘Beautiful One’. In this poetry chapbook, REZthaPoet explores interesting sensual themes as he…More
Mongrels, like our Bingos, are Beautiful Too Nomereloss, God bless his soul, had only one commercially accepted solo-performed single. It was a remake of Ìyàwó Ọ̀lẹ̀lẹ̀. It was Beau Sia,…More