Shakespeare says if music is the food of life, plays on. The same way a writer uses his words to paint pictures of life. We may not be able to identify the way a writer [...]
Book Reviews
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 282012
Most readers these days especially of poetry adopt the scanning system. They look at a piece of work in a few seconds, appraise and discard it. Such a reader would skim through the first pages [...]
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 [...]
One of the things most fascinating about life as we live it is the phenomenon of how people pass through each other’s lives like buses through a bus stop. Someone who meant the entire world [...]
The Theme of Social & Political Injustice in Zulu Sofola’s ‘King Emene’ & Esiaba Irobi’s ‘Nwokedi’ It has been said that injustice is a wrongful action, a situation where people are treated unfairly. This research [...]
• 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 [...]
The novel, Tomorrow Died Yesterday is a delight to any brilliant reader. Every reader wants to hear and discover a new perspective to, especially, “over flogged” issues. The Niger Delta issue, corruption, gang rape [...]
Dec 222011
Helon habila’s Measuring Time is a story of a nation told vividly through the people. It is a narration that basically centres round characters and how their fears, ambitions, aspirations and philosophy affect their society.
Dec 142011
Adunni, my iPad just bought me African Roar 2011, an anthology of stories written by fifteen African writers, and edited by Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor Hartmann. I don’t think Adunni wasted our precious money but [...]
On a certain bus ride in a visit to my Alma Mater, I stumbled on an old mate from the wonderful days of creativity in writing. We had a nice chat as regards our future [...]
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 [...]
Adunni my iPad just bought me an e-book, “The Granta Book of the African Short Story” published byGranta and edited by the Nigerian writer Helon Habila. The book’s “Introduction” written by Habila alone is worth the [...]
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 [...]
I won’t lie, reading Adimora-Ezeigbo’s latest offering was pure torture. The book sent me to sleep each time I opened it on Adunni’s Kindle. I stopped reading it halfway; I won’t be back to it. [...]
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