This is an excellent expose of the incipient influence of the poetry  of Umar Abubakar Sidi  anthology: The poet of dust. It is …

The advent of social media has a positive influence on the development of literature and cultural activities generally. Others would argue in the …

Commonly, there is a fatalistic edge to artistic portrayals of women that can easily be associated with gender politics. In The Concubine, Elechi …

Introduction “A Desert of Reincarnated Lifetimes”, by Leticia Mbaiver Nyitse, is a collection of fifty poems. They are diverse and personally reflective. Each …

A number of Ifá divinations (or Odu Ifa) in all the 16 main divinations of the Yoruba religious corpus explicate and aid the …

Abstract This essay explores the renaissance of Sufi poetry in the contemporary Nigerian literary landscape occasioned by Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of …

This issue is a manifesto of some sort. Had I the chance, I would make it more concise, because manifestos, if they would …

The title of this review is taken from Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s blurb for Kola Tunbosun’s new collection of translational poetry. The erudite …

The first striking thought upon engaging Akinyemi’s beautiful offering is the words Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a …

Right from the emergence of the first generation of written African poetry that saw the publication of confrontational verses that challenged colonialism and …

Words have weight—Stephen King There’s an attempt to make words light & light-hearted in this collection of poems & short prose. The book …

In The Son of the House, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia attempts to redirect our attention away from oppressive male-female dynamics towards a deeper exploration of …