Bello Haneefah
Adunni’s Louding Voice as a Reflection of Female Aspirations │ Book Review
Book: The Girl With the Louding VoiceAuthor: Abi DarePages: 384Publisher: DuttonReviewer: Haneefah Bello Abi Dare’s debut novel is a crisp, brilliant account of a fourteen year old girl’s struggle against illiteracy, patriarchy, and abuse. The book opens with Adunni, the protagonist, being told by her father that she will be married off to an old taxi…
3 Poems│Haneefah Bello
Wearing a Body In inheriting clothes from my mother,I have begun to wear her body;In wearing her body,I have begun to unravel parts of me thatcarry questions I cannot form on my tongue.What is broken may be lost. & what is lost may never be found. We lay side by side on a worn couch…
3 Poems by Bello Haneefah
A Study of Our Madness sometimes it becomes difficult to tell the difference between my mind and a townhouse burning to the ground maybe /to be mad//is just another name/ for the last time/ I /tried to write a poem about hope how my fingers curled – stiff to fists – thinking this was another…