Year: <span>2017</span>

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017 [AUGUST] ‘LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING’

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 15, 2017August 3, 2020

Words Rhymes & Rhythm (WRR) is now receiving entries for the August edition of the BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC) SEASON III, 2017. Poets from Nigeria, Africa and all over...

NEWS

BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST 2017: UI’s AIRE OMOTAYO WINS JULY BPPC TROPHY

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 15, 2017November 5, 2017

The July 2017 edition of the monthly Words Rhymes & Rhythm backed BRIGITTE POIRSON has been won by Aire Joshua Omotayo, the second winner from Edo state in as many...

SHORT STORIES

NO MORE

Kukogho Iruesiri SamsonAugust 13, 2017September 3, 2017

Caked sperm flaked off Cynthia’s stomach when she woke up that Saturday morning. She was alone in the bedroom. The bastard was gone. As usual. She heaved a sigh as...

THE STARS by Obua Joseph

Obua JosephAugust 13, 2017August 3, 2020

The night steals a march on my soul Such visions but uncommon for a blind man mocked by nature for his inadequacy The stars keep me company in this painful...

ESSAYS

STORYTELLING QUOTES FROM GREAT WRITERS by Lucy Adams

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 12, 2017August 3, 2020

Literature is a huge repository of spiritual and moral values. It would seem that all of us have long been familiar with works of the best writers like Leo Tolstoy,...

NEWS

GREEN GRIOTS: TELLING REFRESHINGLY INDIGENOUS STORIES

Words Rhymes & RhythmAugust 11, 2017August 12, 2017

Words Rhymes & Rhythm is pleased to announce the GREEN GRIOT project, an innovative drive to tell the Nigeria story and at the same time give (young) Nigerian fiction writers...

BOOK REVIEWS

HELON HABILA’S ‘THE CHIBOK GIRLS’ IS A CREATIVE HISTORICITY a review by Eugene Yakubu

Eugene YakubuAugust 11, 2017August 3, 2020

Helon Habila's daring narrative 'The Chibok Girls' cannot be strictly placed within the novel tradition in African literature because of its overly journalistic and subjective narration. Memoir it might be,...

BOOK REVIEWS

THE POET AS A VOICE OF CONSCIENCE: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF AGARAU’S FOR BOYS WHO WENT by Ayoola Goodness

Goodness AyoolaAugust 11, 2017August 3, 2020

TITLE: FOR BOYS WHO WENT AUTHOR: ADEDAYO ADEYEMI AGARAU GENRE: Poetry NUMBER OF PAGES: 42 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES & RHYTHM PUBLISHERS DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2015 ISBN: 978-978-547-414-5 REVIEWER: AYOOLA GOODNESS...

POETRY STAR WRITERS

POET OF THE WEEK: “LIFE ITSELF IS POETRY, THE MUSE IS EVERYWHERE” – OLAYINKA SAMSON AREMU

Sam De PoetAugust 5, 2017August 12, 2017

OLAYINKA SAMSON AREMU is a Nigerian Poet and Spoken Word Artiste from Ado-odo, Ogun State. He is a Communications graduate from the National Open University Nigeria (NOUN). He started writing poetry...

POETRY

TO BE A MAN by Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

Dominic Ayegba OkolikoAugust 4, 2017September 9, 2017

If your idea about being a boy Is to cause another a boil, Then you’ve got it all wrong “Cause you’re no strong; Not inside and not outside. If being...

Year: 2017