Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Review of Tolu’ A. Akinyemi’s The Morning Cloud is Empty
Book: The Morning Cloud is Empty (60 pages). Author: Tolu’ A. Akinyemi. Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle, Ltd. The Morning Cloud is Empty is a collage of rich imageries from a past so young that it is cradled in the present. More succinctly, it very…
RISK PYRAMID AND SPOKEN WORD POETRY by Olumide Holloway
My first credit analysis training was by SLS aka HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. This was in 2008 when he was the CRO i.e Chief Risk Officer of a first generation bank in Nigeria. The main lesson of that day was the application of the Risk…
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…
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…
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…
An Orchestral Performance of Love Hymns: A Review of How To Fall In Love
Sensational love poems did not go extinct after William Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickson, Khalil Gibran, and other fantastic poets. While it is true that we no longer make a great show of sending love poems overleaf of postcards and fancy greeting cards, there will…
You Should Read Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
Ehi shares her thoughts on one of her favorite novels. She plans to write a short note for every book she reads in 2021. She began with Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. It felt like a trip to Afghanistan… It’s 7 am here. Cold…
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