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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 not give much away but there was something about [...] Read More Lola Shoneyin and the Price of Patriarchy: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives 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 temper.’ The first, ‘Dancing Naked’ exclusively collects different poems [...] Read More An exploration of DANCING NAKED (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 people even wonder if it was ever written. For [...] Read More MAIWADA’S MUDOSKI: THOUGHTS 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. In understanding this, we see exactly why hers makes it into the pack of just a few books published over the last decade that are, without doubt, authentically Nigeriana. [...] Read More Arachne’s Web: Lola Shoneyin’s “Baba Segi’s Wives”. 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. [...] Read More The Thing Around Your Neck - Audio Review 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 synergy of creative efforts that are always a feature [...] Read More A Life in Full and other stories (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 its themes around things that happen not [...] Read More Measuring Time - A Review 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 names are considered. However, a further probe into the [...] Read More Helon Habila’s Waiting For An Angel 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 die with various themes explored by the narratives. The [...] Read More A Conversation with ‘Nights of the Creaking Bed’ 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 can also not be discountenanced is the fact that [...] Read More From The Caves Of Rotten Teeth: Told With Clarity 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 told with apt words. With the consciousness [...] Read More A review of Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed The collection of stories is a good companion any time, any day. Since it is a collection, I chose to start from the last story. Though, warned that the book is a collection of difficult words, I decide to use my novel-wise experience to [...] Read More From The Caves of Rotten Teeth: Personal Reflections This story is set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Detective Tamunoemi Peterside investigates a bombing at the residence of Pius Okpara, who is contesting for governor in the state primaries. No one was killed in the bombing but there is an attempt on the life [...] Read More Treachery in the Yard - A review Onaedo - The Blacksmith’s daughter is the first novel by Ngozi Achebe. If you’re a fan of the style of Chinua Achebe, who happens to be Ngozi’s uncle, this book will not disappoint. The main story is that of Onaedo, a young teenager of [...] Read More Onaedo - The Blacksmith’s daughter You will be mistaken if you think Myne Whitman’s literary birthing, A Heart to Mend, is among the charade of romantic novels that could always be predicted with the end of ‘… and they live happy ever after’. The unusual writing confidence that exudes [...] Read More ‘A Heart to Mend’ by MYNE WHITMAN |
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