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A Child-Poet’s Beginning of Silence – A Review
James Joyce, the giant Irish modernist novelist of the twentieth century paid his own tribute to the creative genius of youth, when he published his first notable work and entitled it, Portrait of An Artist as a Youngman. When in August 2012 the city of Abuja witnessed...
A Review of Sanya Osha’s ‘Dust, Spittle and Wind’
I was talking to Katleho Shoro from the Anthropology Department at the University of Cape Town about a workshop that was to be organised where two African authors were coming to speak about their novels. When I left the building I had the book Dust, Spittle and...
The Mirror of Our Times: A Review of ‘The Funeral Did Not End’
TITLE: THE FUNERAL DID NOT END
AUTHOR: SYLVA NZE IFEDIGBO
PUBLISHERS: DADA BOOKS, LAGOS, NIGERIA
PAGES: 299
On my way home from work that rain-moistened afternoon I popped into Debonair Bookstores, Yaba. It was pay day and I was flush with cash. I scanned the shelves...
Vultures of Fortune: A Book Review
Vultures of Fortune: A Book Review
Kraftgriots, Kroft Books Limited, Ibadan; 2011
There are times when I have followed literary wisdom from the western sage that to be a good poet one must write and think like William Shakespeare or John Milton. The works of poets...
Slaughtered by Religion: A Review of E.E. Sule’s ‘Sterile Sky’
Title: Sterile Sky
Author: E.E. Sule
Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd, Essex.
Pages: 286
Year: 2012
E.E. Sule has been in the news lately for condemning the “culture heroism” (apologies Ato Quayson) that over-exposed authors such as Chinua Achebe have enjoyed....
When Dreams Fail – A Review of Sola Osofisan’s ‘Blood Will Call’
Sola Osofisan made a name for himself in Nigeria during the 1990s as a multiple award-winning writer, screenwriter and film director. In those early days it was already evident he was cut out for impressive things. But about two decades ago, he became a beneficiary...
Circus of the Absurd – A Review by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Circus of the Absurd by Deji Rahman
Kraftgriots, Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan; 2012
The short story craft is quite enthralling when it works well. Unlike the novel which takes time to unravel the short story hits you in the face as it were, rendering its magic like...
A Poet’s Trauma in New Orleans: a Review of Niyi Osundare’s ‘City without People’
The poet, scholar and social critic Niyi Osundare recently published a collection of poems. Something is strange about this collection. It is the first of the prolific poet’s works which preoccupies itself with issues outside Nigeria. All the poems in City without...
For John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo: Triumphing Over an Imaginary Tragedy
I revere Buchi Emecheta, Ola Rotimi, Flora Nwapa, Elechi Amadi, Cyprian
Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo,
Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, Wole Soyinka, and TM Aluko. Together, they
raised and nurtured those of my generation who loved...
A Review of Lola Shoneyin’s For The Love of Flight
REVIEWER: TONI KANBOOK TITLE: FOR THE LOVE OF FLIGHTAUTHOR: LOLA SHONEYINPUBLISHER: CASSAVA REPUBLIC, 2010PAGES: 58RATING: 2 out of 3
For the Love of Flight is Lola Shoneyin’s third collection of poems and it goes a long way in cementing what is, already, a well...
