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 …
Indigenous LiteratureReviews
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The first striking thought upon engaging Akinyemi’s beautiful offering is the words Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a …
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Critical EssayPoetry
Place Poetry: a Comparative Analysis of Isaiah Gbenga’s Osogobo and Marvellous Igwe’s O Cicade | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo
Right from the emergence of the first generation of written African poetry that saw the publication of confrontational verses that challenged colonialism and …
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Words have weight—Stephen King There’s an attempt to make words light & light-hearted in this collection of poems & short prose. The book …
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FictionReviews
Reading The Son of the House as a Trauma Narrative Through a Feminist Lens | Damilola Oyedeji
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 …
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The reading public of this country, as Walter Benjamin said of Germany’s a hundred years ago, can be structured into two roughly equal …
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MARY KUDARU began to say a prayer, and so I stood still, folded my arms across my chest, and bowed my head in …
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Critical Essay
SOCIO-CULTURAL SHOCKS AND DIFFERENTIALS IN HER MAJESTY’S VISIT: PLAY BY ADINOYI OJO ONUKABA | Tunde Olusunle, PhD & Stephen Adewumi, PhD
ABSTRACT This paper explores the concept of socio-cultural shocks and differentials by utilizing a play text as a case study. The chosen play …
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PoetryReviews
A Portmanteau of Punctuation Marks: A Graphological Analysis of Ndubuisi’s Naija is a Badly Behaved Poem | Bolaji Ojurongbe
The term ‘stylistics’ is derived from the word ‘style’ which is one area stylistics looks at—the style of a writer. In German, it …
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Indigenous LiteratureReviews
Review Of Enyabagi Nupe Mathematics By Adamu Idris Manarakis | Umar Salihu Adamu
The book Enyabagi Nupe; Nupe Mathematics by Adamu Idris Manarakis is a compelling 113-page exploration of mathematical concepts through the lens of Nupe …
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Critical Essay
Postmodern-Secular City-Life Sexual Relations in Contemporary Urban Nigerian Writings | Yinka Adetu
Postmodernism in Urban Nigerian Writings In contemporary discussions on Nigerian urban literature, much has been said about how postmodern city life has been …
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Global Review
Groundbreaking Exploration of the Birthplace of Writing: A Review of Al-Bishak’s Black Papyrus | Sumaila Isah Umaisha
A committed scholar is identifiable by his uncanny passion for fulfilling Robert Frost’s vision of “taking the road less travelled” in the field …