36-year-old Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a poet, blogger, linguist and teacher. In 2009, he received a Fulbright scholarship to teach Yoruba at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, through the Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship (FLTA). He holds...
Not long ago, I asked Toni Kan in an interview whether he’d noticed what I reasoned to be an unprecedented rise in the number of young people writing in Nigeria today, and he said he thought young people have always been writing – that they only...
DEATHLY CHIMES (For Chinedum Okwuosa) Do we die breathless, As the afternoon rain: Running against the sun, Gasping, and then crashing– suddenly? Do we dream of a journey, And then stop, to not continue? Do we, knowing, ride out? Or, walking, halt...
The name Ogaga Ifowodo, PhD., is familiar to many, not because of its cadence, but because of the sometimes public struggles that the self-identified “radical progressive” has committed his life to in his bid to elevate the human...
Toni Kan Onwordi, better known simply as Toni Kan, is a poet, writer of short fiction, Public Relations and Advertising executive and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Sabinews.com. A widely anthologised writer, Onwordi is a recipient of multiple...
Book: Blood Lines & Other Plays Author: Chris Anyokwu Publisher: Kraft Books Date: 2014 Length: 180 pages Reviewer: Naza Amaeze Okoli “A serious writer,” says Chinua...
BECOMING I was brewed with the tears of a grieving nation Steamed in the heat of endless battles Poured down the winding path To gather dust To inhale the fearsome fury That lies beneath I was cast with the forces of a world far gone Bent by...
Naza Amaeze Okoli