Category: Reviews

  • MBC Meetup – April 2022

    MBC Meetup – April 2022

    This month we will be having a Book Meetup with Bina Idonije as we discuss her debut offering, Bridges are for Burning. There will be a Q & A session where you can ask all your questions about her work and other projects in general. Date: 24th April 2022 Time: 2:00 PM VENUE: Workstation, Maryland…

  • The Poetry of Tolu A. Akinyemi

    The Poetry of Tolu A. Akinyemi

    Tolu Akinyemi was born in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria and currently lives in the United Kingdom. Tolu Akinyemi is an exceptional talent, out-of-the-box creative thinker, a change management agent and a leader par excellence. Tolu is a business analyst and financial crime consultant as well as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with extensive experience working with…

  • In An Experimental Essay, Teju Cole Pens the Longest Sentence Ever Published by The New York Times

    In An Experimental Essay, Teju Cole Pens the Longest Sentence Ever Published by The New York Times

     “…Cosindas’s photographs and the weirdness registered by other artists is not a simple question of influence or imitation, or even a claim that magic of this kind always works in the same way, but rather that there are often similar intuitions between practitioners in this shamanic mode, all of whose work seems to be a…

  • Kola King’s A PLACE IN THE SUN is the book to watch

    A Place in the Sun is a racy novel, rich in history and suspense. Written by Kola King a veteran journalist, it is a love story based in the fictional country of Songha which in reality looks like life in the early days of colonial conquest in Northern Nigeria where the author hails from. Beginning…

  • The Newborn Saga: The Chronicles of the Newborn (Rise of the Mlezi)

    The Chronicles of the Newborn (Rise of the Mlezi) is a good attempt at creating a comic with an Afrocentric appeal. Many comic buffs have over the years criticized our over dependence on foreign comics for entertainment so I particularly commend the publishers for being bold enough to go African. The first thing worthy of…

  • Ojuju’s Take: A review of Abigail Anaba’s Sector IV

    Sector IV is a book set in the period of the Nigerian Civil war and the months just after it ends. A story of stories, the book runs through the lives (and sometimes deaths) of various individuals linked by a common fate in their bid to escape the distortions that wartime sorrow and pain visits…

  • Behind The Fiction: A Review of The Son of your Father’s Concubine

    I had this feeling that the author had subliminally directed the spotlight on the title story The Son of your Father’s Concubine – which might have been his favourite. Don’t get me wrong, I believe The Son of your Father’s Concubine is a great piece, packed with twists and turns that climaxed in the most shocking…