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Viral Poems by Sunny Ayewanu; Bookdoctors Ventures Publishing, Lagos, Nigeria; 2025; 109pp
Some people fight with guns, some others fight with the bomb, but the...
The “of the decade” idea in the whole show did not do the awards any good. Hence, right from the start the 2007 NMA had a peculiar line of criticism to contend with...
The film is a gem. You must see it. If you have, you must watch it again. It’s the best film out of Nigeria ever and there are none of the usual female leads...
In The Horsemen and other poems, Nwakanma gallops through many seasons of war, ploughs through many cemeteries of fallen dreams, scales okra covered walls and chases dreams that never left our huts in the first place. And the reader comes upon this land of alien deities, and lands exhausted on the unwelcome mats of these strange people that worship feuding gods...
I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...
Clearly making the transition from the short story to the novel, in my view, has been problematic for Helon Habila. I have bought both books that he has written – Waiting for an Angel, and Measuring Time. I am yet to finish reading Waiting for an Angel...
Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic spirits to cause harm, misfortune, death or heal sickness...
I am immensely disturbed by reports emanating from Akwa Ibom state on the vitriolic action of the state government against the activists of the child witchcraft problem in the state...
I cannot plead my case before a female human magistrate and my detractors know it. I could approach the high court for the enforcement of my fundamental right, but who has ever heard of the fundamental right of an Egungun? They claim to have granted me bail. Bail? Whoever told them a ‘spirit’ is in bondage and needs bail?
Tom Ugo is not his real name. He was 4 years old when his parents were divorced in 2012, because of what they said were their irreconcilable differences. Ugo did not go to school in the preceding year due to the quandaries that the divorce had degenerated into...
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