There was a time in the history of Uganda when a beast ruled, hunger triumphed, hospitality forsaken and economy brutalised; that some would die, many would become ordinary time-markers and mysteries would be archived for Read More
Aug 222012
Joseph Omotayo
Aug 082012
Just when you feel not to go along reading some stories, Abubakar remedies the pain with enchanting aftertastes. Abubakar is that good at giving any story a creative end. He darns loopholes with stylish climaxes. Read More
Apr 272012
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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, Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
Dec 092010
Location: Tiamiyu Salvage Street, Opposite Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos. Venue: Terra Kulture. The pain is timeless; The emotion is empathic. The pain is mutual; The atmosphere was with pin-drop silence. What made November’s reading Read More
Nov 202010
One thing about an anthology of different contributors is the flowing stream of experiences you are provided with. When it comes to a collection of literary materials, you cannot be disappointed by the spring of Read More