Category Archives: Book Reviews

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Revisiting The Caine Prize

Very recently, I stumbled on Tope Folarin’s ‘Miracle’, the award-winning Caine prize story for African writing for 2013. He happens to be the fourteenth winner of this prize. His story clinched the award among fine authors like Elnathan John, Abubakar Ibrahim and Chinelo Okparanta. This work of his is a fast-paced literary narrative that is exquisitely […]

Sacrificing theme for style: A review of Ben Okri?s Starbook

Sacrificing theme for style: A review of Ben Okri’s Starbook

Reading Ben Okri’s Starbook (2007), one is refreshed and excited not just because of the plot but the courageous plunge into the unconventional, a style that confounds lay readers. A postmodernist writer par distinction, Ben Okri breeds and nurtures an approach to fiction writing that only those who seek what is beyond just the story, […]

Olusegun Obasanjo: The Presidential Legacy 1999 ? 2007

Olusegun Obasanjo: The Presidential Legacy 1999 - 2007

EDITORS: LADIPO AKINKUGBE & AHMED JODA YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2013 PAGE EXTENT: VOLUME I - 402, VOLUME II - 290 PUBLISHER: BOOKCRAFT AFRICA A rich critique with a foreword by Nelson Mandela, the book(s) tells  of Olusegun Obasanjo (the man) and his administration as the president of Nigeria (1999 - 2007). The text is an indepth and neutral analysis […]

Dare To Live Your Passion By Alexgreat Akhigbe

Dare To Live Your Passion By Alexgreat Akhigbe

Book Title: DARE TO LIVE YOUR PASSION Author: ALEXGREAT AKHIGBE Pages: 128 Chapters: Six Foreword by: STEVE HARRIS Published by: Passion House Printed by: Benco Color Media Ltd. Book Reviewer: IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA This book - DARE TO LIVE YOUR PASSION, is passionately written by Alexgreat Akhigbe to help you discover, release and maximize your […]

Review ? Sarah House By Ifeanyi Ajaegbo

Review - Sarah House By Ifeanyi Ajaegbo

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 opportunities promised to her by Slim. Soon she realises she is a slave, bought and sold without her consent and […]

Therewasacountry-Achebe

Memoirs as Tools for National Mobilization: A review of Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country:A personal history of Biafra and Wole Soyinka’s Ibadan: The Penkelemes years

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 in Nigeria with its attendant relevance to contemporary society. It is a sad a reminder of the historical actualities as […]

Foot-Prints

Review: ‘Foot-Prints of 50 Great Nigerians’ by Tafa Osisiye.

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 Nwoye. Publisher: Joromi Museum (Revelation Tourist Palazzo) ‘Sir Victor Uwaifo’s museum,’ Benin City, Nigeria. Foreword: Prof Sir Victor Uwaifo. Pagination: […]

My Hero: Learning From the Makers of History by Uzoma Ezeson

My Hero: Learning From the Makers of History by Uzoma Ezeson

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 that will cause a mindshift in your life. After reading this book, I bet you will go from good to […]