If there is only one generously-funded literary prize in a country of 200 million people…it is because – difficulties of the Nigerian operating environment aside – there is no real market for what Nigerian writers are writing.
REVIEW: PANSHAK HAGGAI’S STORM IN A POT IS ‘WORTH READING’, HAS ‘AMAZING PLOT TWISTS’
Haggai’s Storm in a Pot is worth reading and it promises to not fail the intriguing and attractive title it has.
I AM JUST A BOY, I AM NOT A BURDEN (AN ESSAY BY JOHN CHIZOBA VINCENT)
So, are boys really a ‘special’ burden to raise? Is Life itself is a lot of work. Is parenting itself is a lot of work. Is raising girls also not a lot of work? What useful thing in this world does not require lots of work? Why just boys? Why not children?
ON REPUTATION, LIFE & DEATH (AN ESSAY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
It is not death we must pray against or fear but rather sickness. Because sickness leaves us in between standing for life and falling for death. To be sick is to battle for life against death. It means something is coming for your dreams and aspirations, something is erasing your name gradually from the living and at the same time registering your name in the books of death.
CHUKWUEMEKA AKACHI: AN AFRICAN KNOWS NO DEPRESSION – (COMMENTARY BY OPPONG CLIFFORD BENJAMIN)
So the brilliant and successful Nigerian writer, Chukwuemeka Akachi died in suicide and I am not moaning. Akachi had nothing in life to trade for life. He was only waiting...
ADENIYI’S ‘THE EFFECTUAL, FERVENT PRAYER’ IS PURPOSEFUL, NOT PATRONISING & FOR THOSE WILLING TO TREAD THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
While reading this text, you don’t get the feeling of a patronising, self-absorbed preacher talking down at his congregation but of a forgiving preacher who realizes he is as vulnerable to weakness as a human as much as the reader.
REVIEW: THE ILLUMINANT’S LESSONS LEAVE LASTING IMPRESSIONS & REMIND OF THE SURREALISM OF EXISTENCE
The Illuminant has moral and didactic lessons. The poet is almost like a seer who is trying to align mankind with morality.
REVIEW: EMMANUEL FAITH LAYS BARE THE MYSTERIES OF THE CORPORATE WORLD IN CHRONICLES OF AN INTERN, ‘A BIBLE FOR INTERNS’
In this book, the corporate world is laid bare and stripped of its mysteries through the keen eyes of a resolute and resourceful observer. You’d be surprised at how much you are not maximizing your potentials in your career until you meet this book.
REVIEW: OYINDAMOLA SUCCESSFULLY DROPS MEANINGS IN ‘BUT HERE YOU ARE’
TITLE: BUT HERE YOU ARE AUTHOR: OYINDAMOLA SHOOLA GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 33 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 ISBN: NILREVIEWER: EUGENE YAKUBU Oyindamola’s But...
REVIEW: TUKUR’S ‘A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE’ COMMUNICATES IN CLEAR AND PRECISE DICTION
TITLE: A BOY’S TEARS ON EARTH’S TONGUE AUTHOR: TUKUR OLORUNLOBA RIDWAN GENRE: POETRY NO. OF PAGES: 36 PUBLISHER: WORDS RHYMES AND RHYTHMS LTD YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 ISBN: NIL REVIEWER: ...