A friend told me about Prince Modestus Diko and his two books, “The Enslaved Virgin Girl and The Philosophers Grief”. I perceived the young author to be both bold and ambitious, considering that he self-published Read More
Jul 102011
Book Reviews
Jun 302011
Book: Unbridled Author: Jude Dibia Year of Publication: 2007 Source: Amazon When I chatted with Jude Dibia here, I had not read any of his books. I had read a couple of interviews about Read More
Jun 302011
Book: On Black Sisters’ Street Author: Chika Unigwe Publisher: Vintage Year of Publication: 2010 Source: Amazon In this era of human trafficking and modern day slavery, particularly sex trafficking; On Black Sisters’ Street (OBSS) is Read More
Jun 292011
The name, Sefi Atta is yet to gain international repute like Chinua Achebe or Soyinka but it does a lot in contributing fiction to African literature and the world at large. Her novel, Everything Good Read More
Jun 192011
Book Title – Ada’s Daughter (356 pages) Author – Jacqueline Maduneme Publisher/ Date – Pointed Arrows (May 2011) Genre – Memoir (Dysfunctional Families) Reviewer – Myne Whitman Source – Review Copy from Author The memoir Read More
Jun 102011
This review might feel a bit like the rant of crazy guy (hehehe) but read on as I give you my thoughts on Chimamanda Adichie’s book. I have finally finished Chimamanda Adichie’s book, Half Of Read More
Jun 012011
Ayo’s personality has nothing to do with the way he writes. He looks really quiet as a person. He chooses his words when in a conversation. And he likes conversing without any element of taekwondo. Read More
May 102011
Most young writers in Nigeria fall into the fallacy of thinking they possess something that their forerunners did not. Adaobi Nwaubani the award-winning author of “I do not come to you by chance” demonstrated this Read More
May 092011
I had no idea of what to expect from Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. However, there was one thing I was clear about after reading her two later works: Half of a Yellow Sun and The Read More
Apr 192011
Inductive flows in myriad voices – Book Review Dancing Naked is a collection that boasts seventy-one poems in three parts viz. Dancing Naked; Voiced Notes and Places, from different ‘poets of different generations, tune and Read More
Apr 112011
When I get hold of a book to read, I usually read the synopsis on the back cover and quotes from literary reviews. The brief synopsis of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives did Read More
Apr 052011
(Dedicated to @Idoko Ojabo) Writer’s Note: This analysis will be misunderstood. The book, Musdoki, is no longer the news and the “Aint too proud to beg” [1] e-mail has reached the stage where some Read More
Feb 192011
Lola Shoneyin’s world is her portrait of Arachne’s web and it is no more the fault of the butterfly that is caught in than it is the slipup of the spider that spins than it is of the eye that sees all and retains the picture in mind, in print, for posterity. This book makes it into the pack of just a few books published over the last decade that are, without doubt, authentically Nigerian.
Nov 262010
Listen to a review of The thing around your neck, and The Road Home, two books about the immigrant experience. KUOW Seattle interviews Myne Whitman on her thoughts about leaving home and settling in a new place.
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
Oct 262010
(Measuring Time, a book by Helon Habila) There’s so much controversy on what qualities a classic novel should command. In some quarters it is strongly held that a classic novel should be able to spread Read More
Oct 122010
The impression a first reader of this Helon Habila’s work will have of this book is that of a romantic piece. Most especially, when the cover page and the content which is a list of Read More
Oct 072010
Just like the blurb rightly puts it, Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed is full of colourful characters and as well, in my own opinion, interesting issues. These (characters and issues) come alive and Read More
Oct 032010
Though the book written by A. Igoni Barret is a collection of short stories that has the potency to keep the reader glued to every of its pages from the first to the last, what Read More
Sep 282010
In spite of the widely acclaimed offence of immorality that Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed purportedly commits, the book indeed reflects the power of confidence that proper narration could exude when it is Read More