Category: Reviews

Reviews

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

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Endings Are Nebulous Things

Post author By Afapinen
Post date September 27, 2024

Book cover: Masobe Books / Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Sima Essien

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The Restless Muse of Umar Abubakar Sidi: The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date July 22, 2024

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags restless muse of umar abubakar sidi

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A Wandering Feast: On Teju Cole’s Tremor

Post author By Afapinen
Post date July 19, 2024

by SA Sanusi

Tags cole-esque, colean, dissident novel, nigerian american, sa sanusi, sadako, teju cole, tremor, turner slave ship

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Ike Anya’s Memoir “Small by Small” is Madeleine and Alive

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date April 17, 2024

The author Ike Anya

by Carl Terver

Tags becoming a doctor in 1990s nigeria, ike anya, medical student, small by small

Essays Poetry Reviews

The Decline of Love Poetry: Reading Chukwudera’s Painter of Love

Post author By Afapinen
Post date April 2, 2024

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Ancci

Tags afapinen reviews, ancci, heiress chapbook, Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera, neruda, Nigerian poetry, painter of love, poetry reviews

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Reviewed: On Vanessa Walters’ The Nigerwife

Post author By Afapinen
Post date November 29, 2023

The Nigerwife cover (Masobe)

by Njoku Nonso

Tags Nigerian fiction, njoku nonso reviews, the nigerwife review, vanessa walters the nigerwife

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Wole Talabi’s Thriller Shigidi Knows Something about the Capitalism of Gods

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date November 19, 2023

Shigidi cover (Masobe)

by Carl Terver

Tags afapinen fiction, brass head of obalufon, carl terver reviews, Nigerian fiction, Nneoma, old yoruba religion, orisa, shigidi and the brass head of obalufon, wole talabi

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A Journey to Recovery in Leila Aboulela’s River Spirit

Post author By Afapinen
Post date November 7, 2023

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags akuany and yaseen, al-ubayyid, Carl Terver, khartoum, leila aboulela, mahdi revolt, review of river spirit by aboulela