Goblin Market is a long narrative poem about Laura and Lizzie, living alone. Morning and evening, they hear the voices of goblins saying, …
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Critical Essay
Creative Panache and Social Millstone, Tanure Ojaide and the Niger Delta Polemics: Will the Cockerel Ever Hatch? By Ngozi Chuma-Udeh
Introduction There is a symbiotic relationship betweenthe social obligations of a writer and his creative panache and the onus for this relationship …
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Indigenous Literature
Sa’adatu Sa’ar Mata (Sa’adatu the Shinning Female Star) by Balkisu Salisu Ahmad | Asabe Usman Kabir
The singular feminist trust of this novel is the heroine’s quest for emancipation, selfhood and identity through education. Sa’adatu who was in love …
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I The question is still being asked about why people are not enamoured with poetry anymore, and why they do not give …
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TITLE: BOOM BOOM AUTHOR: JUDE IDADA PUBLISHER: WINE PRESS YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2019 PAGES: 228 ISBN: 978 – 978 – 54043 …
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Fiction
A SIZZLING BROTH OF UNORTHODOX SEASONINGS: A REVIEW OF ABUBAKAR ADAM IBRAHIM’s SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOMS By Martin Ezimano, Esq.
From its very first line “SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOMS” (SOCB) establishes its determination to be an unusual story. This first line goes: “Hajiya …
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In the words of Chinua Achebe, “an African writer who tries to avoid the big social and political issues of contemporary Africa will …
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Ebi Yeibo, White Masks (Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2019, pp.125) Yusuf M. Adamu, Places: A Poetic Geography (Kano: Adamu Joji, 2018, pp. 142) …
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Poetry is easily the most concise form of the three recognized genres of literature. It is perhaps for this reason that most practitioners …
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Book Title: Creative Conversations: 365+1 vol. 2 Author: GesiereBrisibe-Dorgu Publishers: Literary Vistas Ltd, Port Harcourt Pagination: 185 pages Occasion: The …
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Teen Authors
Looking through the Pain: A Review of Miracle Attah’s Short Story Collection “Inside My Pain”
Reviewer: OjoOlumide Emmanuel Title: Inside My Pain Author: Miracle Attah Year of Publication: 2017 Number of Pages: 52 Publisher: Polarsphere Books, Minna Courtesy …
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Poetry
Interview with 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize Shortlisted Poet, Saddiq Dzukogi
Fist published on Geosi Reads Brief Biography: Saddiq Dzukogi studied at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He has poems featured or forthcoming in …