Title: Beasts of No Nation Author: Uzodimma Iweala Publisher: HarperCollins Year: 2005 Pages: 142 Any great work of art, be it a painting, a poem or a piece of fiction, must have a purpose. When I talk here of purpose, I do not mean the kind...
A trip to Kaduna and I have taken with me a four-thousand-year collection of Chinese poetry, The White Pony edited by Robert Payne. Trafficking on the bumpy Nigerians roads, I have intransigently clung to the delicious pages. Arriving at Kaduna for...
