Introduction “A Desert of Reincarnated Lifetimes”, by Leticia Mbaiver Nyitse, is a collection of fifty poems. They are diverse and personally reflective. Each …
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The advent of social media has a positive influence on the development of literature and cultural activities generally. Others would argue in the …
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Abstract This essay explores the renaissance of Sufi poetry in the contemporary Nigerian literary landscape occasioned by Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of …
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Interrogating Mysticism, Misery, and Mortality: a Review of Olumide Manuel’s Òyèkú | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo
A number of Ifá divinations (or Odu Ifa) in all the 16 main divinations of the Yoruba religious corpus explicate and aid the …
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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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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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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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Peter Okonkwo’s philosophical—religious, even—quest in Fate, in the Dungeon of Doom has the potency to spur a reader to re-examine the debate on …
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Fragile Simplicity and the New Poetry: a Review of Amaka Felly Obioji’s Mother, Did You Call My Name? | Owen Odeson
New poetry begins at the steering of tradition. This is why over time—especially in America and Europe—periods are markers for the style, philosophy, …
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In Romeo Oriogun’s Nomad, a collection of exile and migration poetics, trauma is signatory of displacement. Both people and place share in this …
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Published in 2022 by Something for Everybody Ventures Lagos, Eriata Oribhabor’s ‘Musings of a Poet’ is a hard book to comprehend. Not because …