This is an excellent expose of the incipient influence of the poetry of Umar Abubakar Sidi anthology: The poet of dust. It is …
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Issue 6
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This issue is a manifesto of some sort. Had I the chance, I would make it more concise, because manifestos, if they would …
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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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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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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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Critical Essay
Gender politics and the Myth of the Jealous Sea-King in Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine | Clara Ijeoma Osuji
Commonly, there is a fatalistic edge to artistic portrayals of women that can easily be associated with gender politics. In The Concubine, Elechi …
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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 …