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REVIEW: ACHEBE’S ‘THERE WAS A COUNTRY’ IS A MUST-READ NARRATIVE OF THE BIAFRAN STORY

Eugene YakubuSeptember 13, 2017August 3, 2020

Title: There Was a Country Author: Chinua Achebe Genre: Memoir, Historical Narrative Publisher: Penguin Year of Publication: 2012 Number of Pages: 352 ISBN: 978- 1- 846-14792-0 Reviewer: Eugene Yakubu One notable...

SHORT STORIES

DECAYING FLOWERS

Alade Toheeb OluwatoyinAugust 25, 2017September 3, 2017

The circling vultures were in the centre of a gaiety. Some famished ones, with manky beaks had already pounced on the naked and half naked bodies of young women, children,...

1967 by Ololade Akinlabi

Ololade AkinlabiJanuary 10, 2017August 3, 2020

(About Nigeria civil war and it consequences) Yesterday was lost along our memorial path, It was the day we lost without defeat; We killed our sons as roasted chickens, They...

POETRY

DADDY’S TALE by Ojembe Victor

Ojembe VictorJanuary 1, 2017July 15, 2017

Daddy’s tale They cry for a future They never tried planning We canvas for a secluded state With hands at akimbo Our fathers knew what they saw With their head...

POETRY

AND NIGERIA BEGAT BIAFRA by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu

Eziudo Michael NwachukwuNovember 10, 2016August 21, 2017

With this stetho I hear her cry, with these eyes I see her kicks, her mother cries in labour, her birth is imminent who can hold it back? And the...

POETRY

IRENE by Stefn Sylvester

Words Rhymes & RhythmJune 28, 2015July 22, 2017

You are black, You are wise, You are beautiful, Of creativity are you full. When you dance Wriggling your curves From West to North They stare like morons Lost in...

POETRY

HALF GOLDEN SUN

Words Rhymes & RhythmJanuary 21, 2014July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_9773" align="aligncenter" width="389"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Half Golden Sun][/caption]'twixt four scores in the edge of the east We clamour in distress Amidst the lands, we lost, in fatricide and genocide Clanging...

POETRY

GO WARN GOWON

Words Rhymes & RhythmMarch 22, 2013July 16, 2017

[caption id="attachment_4389" align="aligncenter" width="376"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Go Warn Gowon][/caption]Go warn Gowon that he hasn't really won Those he won at dusk are better at dawn The Kwashiorkor kids are no longer...

Tag: Biafra

REVIEW: ACHEBE’S ‘THERE WAS A COUNTRY’ IS A MUST-READ NARRATIVE OF THE BIAFRAN STORY

DECAYING FLOWERS

1967 by Ololade Akinlabi

DADDY’S TALE by Ojembe Victor

AND NIGERIA BEGAT BIAFRA by Eziudo Michael Nwachukwu

IRENE by Stefn Sylvester

HALF GOLDEN SUN

GO WARN GOWON

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