Out Now – Eboquills Annual Anthology 2023 Available for Download
We are thrilled to announce that the much-anticipated Eboquills Annual Anthology 2023 is now available for download! This literary masterpiece is a culmination of voices from across the globe, featuring poets from Cameroon, Nepal, the United Kingdom, and all corners of Nigeria. We extend our…
NOSTALGIA IN THE VEIN OF PARABLE: A Review of Olaitan Adesina’s Afrocentric By Jide Badmus
Reality is black and white Every other colour is an illusion To grief is to be stuck in profound darkness—requires you to turn inwards for light. Introspection is a form of mourning. You exhume events and memories and lay them on the autopsy table. You…
Eboquills 2023 Anthology: Out in November
We launched Eboquills annual anthology this year. When the submissions window closed in July, we had received poems from Cameroon, Nepal, the United Kingdom, and from all over Nigeria. We want to thank all the poets who sent in their poems. Every one of them…
River Moon By Om Carter: A Lyrical Journey of Love, Healing, and Melanin Magic
River Moon by Om Carter is a hymnal of love, hope, and healing. It contains a hymn for everyone who delights in the warmth and peace of blissful romantic companionship. I experienced the sheer magic of watching whole love stories sit gorgeously in the poems…
Eboquills Annual Anthology Launch
We’re so excited to announce that Eboquills has launched an annual anthology. The submissions window opens today, 30th June 2023, and closes on 31st July 2023. For 2023, our anthology will be a curation of fine poetry- all forms of poetry. Theme: Our Girls: Their…
Sunshine Francis Agaba Launches the First Book in The Lighted Series
10Q showcases the finest and latest African authors from around the world. It is our way of recognizing and appreciating the hard work of authors. Today, we speak with Sunshine Francis Agaba, a Christian author and serving minister. He talks to our editors about his…
Ero-poetics and the Quest for Metaphor: A critical review of Jide Badmus’ Paradox of Little Fires By Nket Godwin
Nket Godwin is a poet, critic, essayist and teacher. His works have been published in both online and print magazines and anthologies. In a time when the thematic preoccupation of Nigerian (and by extension African) literature is trying towean itself from the more overt disillusionment…
Surrealism and a Harvest of Ekphrastic Poetry: A Review of Sidi’s Like Butterflies Scattered About By Art Rascals
Whether we categorize this collection as a dissection of artwork, a sublimation of paintings or both the thoughts etched into canvases and those left on a palette, we would not be wrong. Umar Abubakar Sidi has very well proven that he wields the ability to…
A Review of Eriata Oribhabor’s Mek We Yan
Mek We Yan (Notes for Naija Pidgin & English Language) by Eriata Oribhabor is a 63 paged book, published by Something for Everybody Ventures (SFEV) in the year 2020. I was torn between writing this review in the English Language or the Naija pidgin language…
A Review of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood is one of the books I am ashamed to admit that I read so late. But as they say, it is better late than never. Let me begin by saying I really love how Buchi Emecheta paints the plight of an…
