
AUTHOR: IFEANYI AJAEGBO TITLE: SARAH HOUSE PUBLISHER: BOOKCRAFT (First Published by Picador Africa, 2012) YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2013 PAGE EXTENT: 262 Summary Nita wakes up in a dark world very different from the life of Read More

AUTHOR: IFEANYI AJAEGBO TITLE: SARAH HOUSE PUBLISHER: BOOKCRAFT (First Published by Picador Africa, 2012) YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2013 PAGE EXTENT: 262 Summary Nita wakes up in a dark world very different from the life of Read More
Ndaba Sibanda is a member of this website, and you can see his writing portfolio here, mostly poetry. His latest collection of poems has just been published. About the Book Set in Zimbabwe and South Read More
There was a Country: A personal history of Biafra (2012) and IBADAN: The Penkelemes years (1994) stands out as not just a collection of realistic experiences, but a socio-political commentary that captures the bygone events Read More

Review of the Book: ‘Foot-Prints of 50 Great Nigerians’ by Tafa Osisiye. Title: Footprints of 50 Great Nigerians. A motivational and documentary book on the lives of 50 Great Nigerians. Authors: Chambers Umezulike and Tochukwu Read More

(I did this review as an academic exercise a while back, and I’d love to share it because I think it is relevant to today’s Nigeria.) The words on the cover page tug at the Read More
I walked into the bookshop to check a title for a friend and ended up picking another for myself. It was a small book of just 88 pages coauthored by Michael MacDonald and Titus Ndiritu Read More

My Hero by Uzoma Ezeson is a book that will challenge, humble, inspire and motivate you to greatness because you shall know the truth and the truth will make you better. It is a book Read More
The yuletide season always brings me childhood nostalgia. It’s almost as though Christmas is for children, the food, the new clothes…oh the new clothes. I was heartbroken when I got from school (university) one year Read More
The 4p’s of marketing as evolved by Jerome McCarthy in 1960 was later upgraded to include 3 more Ps. The original price, place, promotion and product were later improved to include 3 other necessary factors Read More

Read Edible Bones, and have a smooth ride, like a professional chauffeur cruising you around town in a limousine. Only that Kaitochuckwu has taken us on a turbulent wander across America, Unoma Azuah’s delivery is Read More
The writer speaks out of real or imagined experience, tales do not spring from nothingness. And often, the reader studies fiction closely – for the truth. Works of fiction tell us stories of an era and Read More
To live a life of purpose and be rich, this magnum opus ‘The Undergraduate Millionaire,’ authored by Amala Mmaduka is the golden key you need to unlock your brighter future. In this book you will Read More

The first thing I noticed and liked about this book the moment I opened it was the finished work. There’s nothing more fulfilling than having a work produced with a near-perfect finish. Both the editor/s, Read More
I enjoyed reading Noo Saro-Wiwa’s book Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, a slim travelogue (272 pages) published by Granta books. I also hated reading it. Be warned, O gentle reader, it starts and ends with an Read More
Reading the first chapters of Myne Whitman’s second novel “A Love Rekindled” was tedious for me. And for the life of me, I couldn’t fathom why. Myne’s sentences were beautiful in their simplicity and the Read More
Dear reader, you should read this enigmatic book, Bitter Leaf written by the poet Chioma Okereke . It is a lovely book. And a frustrating book, more on that later. I fell in love with this spunky book and Read More
I purchased a copy of “The Thing Around Your Neck” at my university’s bookshop yesterday. I perused through it when I got home. I skipped a couple of stories like “Cell One,” therein, which I Read More
“In mid-1992, CNN reported that sixteen year-old Amy Fisher had just shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, something about wanting the older woman dead so Joey – the bloody cradle snatcher – Buttafuoco could be free, I Read More
Writing a review is not as easy as people think. It is not just about reading, viewing or listening to a work of art and writing glowingly about it, or dismissing it with a few Read More