I am thrilled to engage in a thought-provoking conversation with the immensely...
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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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There are many more soldiers who have died from ambushes. Sometimes, survivors who were spared death suffer more. These things are reported in the news. I think that we have lost the capacity to feel them
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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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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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When I am writing poetry, there is no stage version of me, neither is there a page version of me.
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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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