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 […]
(A review of Kelechi Kemnele’s A Bellyful of Words, by Kelechi Njoku) To download click here The thing about labels is not only that they set boundaries which may not be crossed – at least not without accompanying raised eyebrows – but that they get complicated eventually with frequent revisions of what defines what and […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
YimuCentral presents Odufa (the book), the most read story published on the YimuCentral blog with over 10,000 hits in a space of 2 months (Read the excerpt HERE). The book is written by Othuke Ominiabohs, a Nigerian writer whose works have appeared in numerous blogs, and magazines in Nigeria and abroad. Odufa is the first […]
Songs for a Nation in Agony published by Xlibris Corporation UK, is a poetry collection by Onyeka Dike, a poet with words gliding smoothly like water from an uphill river. The collection of poems can be likened to a bilsdungroman; as it documents the poet’s gradual growth from a time of innocence to experience and […]
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 […]
Ndaba Sibanda is a member of this website, and you can see his writing portfolio here, mostly poetry. His latest collection of poems has just been published. About the Book Set in Zimbabwe and South Africa, ‘The Dead Must Be Sobbing’ is a culmination of no holds barred poems spanning over a period of five […]
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 […]
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: […]
(I did this review as an academic exercise a while back, and I’d love to share it because I think it is relevant to today’s Nigeria.) The words on the cover page tug at the string of my heart and curiosity, and compel me to discover “how debt is destroying the developing world” and threatening […]
A look at the literary encyclopedia looking at Nigeria’s fifty top writers.
I walked into the bookshop to check a title for a friend and ended up picking another for myself. It was a small book of just 88 pages coauthored by Michael MacDonald and Titus Ndiritu Kihara published in 2012 by The Paulines Africa. On the blurb of the book was written “What I Never Told […]
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 […]