Not all books start with a really nice dedication, but Bridges are...
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Can one live again, after already living and dying before? Abubakar Adam...
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One of the 23 contributors to the anthology, the Nigerian Kemi Lade in “Catharsis” speaks of “sexistential crisis,” a term she used to describe her earliest state of mind discovering she is a bisexual.
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The play smoothly follows the call and inspection of each soul. First, a woman, whose end is ushered in by her pitiable gullibility.
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August, an ostensibly quirky boy, grows up in a house with exuberant sisters, an apathetic father, and no mother. In that loss, his mother’s loss, a loss he never knew yet knew so well, he asks questions:
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It is not typical for short stories to yank you tightly and wring you into worlds you never knew because they are fleeting, but Troy’s stories stay with you, his characters alive in your head.
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This rare feat of gathering these complexities in Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Madagascar, Libya, Zimbabwe etc. and even in non-African states like Hawaii he pulled off, exhilaratingly so, in this collection that reminds us that no...
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Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt's in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.
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My growing fondness for E.C Osondu’s writing was sparked from reading his...
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In this articulate essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, grief is disambiguated. She...
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