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Of Many Roads: A Review of Chigozie Obioma’s The Road to the Country | Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
Many books and poems have been written about roads, which include: The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost), The Place of Dead Roads (William …
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Revisiting Edward Said’s Orientalism: Power, Representation, and Contemporary Relevance | Ojone Rosemary Ajibogwu
Abstract This paper revisits Edward Said’s Orientalism to interrogate its methodological strategies, literary representations and contemporary relevance. By highlighting Said’s theses on the …
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Art germinates from the soil of experience, hence, it is bound to time. Thus, it is only inevitable that poetry as an art …
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PoetryReviews
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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PoetryReviews
A Reading of Leticia Mbaiver Nyitse’s A Desert of Reincarnated Lifetimes | Edward L. Gar
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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Indigenous LiteratureReviews
ÌGBÀ ÈWE: TRANSLATION AS THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGES | Olanrewaju Ari-Ajia
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 …
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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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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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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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