Download Saraba Sex Issue Just like sex, I have often been faced with the dire difficulty to properly place Saraba using brief sentences. Saraba is just like that – like sex, it communes with your [...]
Apr 272012
Joseph Omotayo
Feb 052012
As I went through the pages of Uwem’s offerings, I could feel Uwem has more experiences to share than what he has written on in those five stories that make up Say You’re One of [...]
Jan 252012
In Voice of America, almost everybody has an international passport, while those without it only nurture escapes from different miseries. Give some of them visas and they are bound to become Americans or at least [...]
Jan 042012
Jude Dibia has authored three novels. He wrote the well acclaimed and daring novel, Walking with Shadows in 2005. His second book, Unbridled (2007), was awarded the 2007 Ken Saro Wiwa Prize for Prose and [...]
Jan 012012
• Reviewing Teju Cole’s Open City Open City is more than a book of one purpose streamlined plot and a contrived theme setting; it is further broader than that. With its loosed plot, there is [...]
Dec 092011
Theme: Many Worlds of Two Writers Location: Debonair Bookstores, 294, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba Date held: November 26, 2011 *** It has become so trite to say African timing always plays the undertone in [...]
Nov 262011
John Steinbeck would have to be opposed on this one. I am a firm follower of his analyses, but certainly not where Blackbird is concerned. When Steinbeck opined that only a big book fulfils its [...]
Nov 152011
In a protean undulation of writing mastery, African Roar 2011 guides you through the labyrinth of issues its collective fourteen African writers are laden with. Africa is a complex geographic mass of confusing and diverse [...]
Sep 112011
Character’s Name: Lola Ogunwole Book Title: Imagine This Author: Sade Adeniran At age nine, Lola Ogunwole’s life crashes with the mishap that will characterize her life in years to come as she is forced to [...]
Aug 292011
Agreed, I haven’t read much on Nigerian-women-immigrant-prostitution. A fact, the multitudes of hearsays and valid stories that I have heard, ones which all culminated into the same story of women trafficking, could easily make banality [...]
Aug 272011
I’m curably sick and put out with the cliché of poor reading culture that is constantly mouthed by everyone who has the slightest opportunity to air some ingenuous basis to a confused audience. I swallow [...]
Jul 202011
As I sat on the desk in front of the students preparing for UTME 2011 that morning, nobody could really observe what my mind was on as I battled to make the students comprehend the [...]
Jun 212011
It is too early to fail, Early too fail. Too early to fail the generations unborn, What shall be bequeathed on the unborn? An archive to take notes from. It is too early to fail, [...]
Apr 012011
Abimbola Aduuni Adelakun is the author of the pastoral novel, Under the Brown Rusted Roofs, a book which perfectly uses Yoruba folklore to mirror the malaises of the country, the joy and sorrow that exist [...]
Feb 142011
Our Internet Lifestyle: Our pleasure for Internet freedom and lifestyle all started some four years back when mobile web browsing was just a novel experience and mobile broadband a non-existing idea. Have you ever come [...]
Jan 062011
I could quite take my memory back to the Christmas of 2009. The unusual thing that happened was that I never celebrated the birth of Jesus at the church with other saints. I thought this [...]