Category: Reviews

Music Reviews

The House Music of Stunna on Tha Track

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 13, 2025

Stunna on Tha Track in Pirate Studios, London

by Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera

Tags amapiano, house music genre, mystic house, nektunez, stunna on the track

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Some Meals Are More Meal Than Others

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 3, 2025

Cover: A Meal Is A Meal; author, Nnamdi Anyadu

by Carl Terver

Tags a meal is a meal, battle for akara, narrative landscape, nnamdi anyadu, potluck jollof, the porridge strategy, the power of orts, the recipe for comfort, the tangerine encounter

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A Mirror to History in Udenwe’s “Years Of Shame”

Post author By Afapinen
Post date October 24, 2025

by Azubuike Obi

Tags Aro confederacy, biafra, Izii Revolt, obinna udenwe, years of shame

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This Angel Needs A God

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 31, 2024

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Amara Innocent

Tags amara innocent, ever obi, fishermen, some angels don't see god

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In Ever Obi’s “Some Angels Don’t See God,” the Past Haunts the Future, Forever

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 25, 2024

by Ugochukwu Anadị

Tags afapinen reviews, Nigerian fiction, some angels don't see god, ugochukwu anadi

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The Past is Not Past: A Review of Ever Obi’s “Some Angels Don’t See God”

Post author By Afapinen
Post date December 23, 2024

by Victory Adewoye

Tags afapinen reviews, ever obi, some angels don't see god, victory adewoye

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Edify Yakusak displays brilliance in “On A Day Like This”

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date December 9, 2024

On A Day Like This [cover; Masobe Books] / Edify Yakusak

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen reviews, edify yakusak, nigeria genre novel, on a day like this edify yakusak, on a day like this review

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Not Always the End

Post author By Afapinen
Post date November 8, 2024

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Evidence Adjarho

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Dami Ajayi’s Clinical Blues as a Music of Two Centuries

Post author By Afapinen
Post date October 28, 2024

Clinical Blues cover (WriteHouse) / Dami Ajayi (Courtesy of the author); Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Oko Owi Ocho

Tags clincal-blues, clinical-blues-10th-anniversary, dami ajayi, decoloniality, diaspora, exile, fourth-generation-poetics, migration, Nigerian poetry, oko owi ocho, sule-e-egya

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After the End of What?—On Olukorede Yishau’s Second Novel

Post author By Afapinen
Post date October 1, 2024

Collage: posterised image of author Olukorede S. Yishau / bookcover, After the End (Masobe Books) Illustrated by Orndir Fanen

by Ugochukwu Anadị