Nuruddin Farah’s Maps review: The tragedy of a woman doomed to love wrong men
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Enemy Circles review, by Yakubu Adamu Geshere
Share now Enemy Circles is full of suspense, intrigues, espionages and counter espionages that brought down nations while binding two hearts
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In Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, patriarchy takes a hit
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The mind of the child: Nilanjana Haldar’s Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer
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Literature in the North: A review of Mujahid Ameen Lilo’s City of Smoke
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Juka Fatou Jabang’s The Phoenix: The path to female liberation is via total denigration of men
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Gabriel Awuah Mainoo’s 60 Aces of Haiku
Share now Gabriel Awuah Mainoo’s 60 Aces of Haiku, an anthology that captures moments in court tennis game is enjoyable, Ubaji
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Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls: A realistic depiction of the Somalia of the 80s
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Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’: Rejecting the stains of silence
Share now Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’ who writes mesmerising love poems, uses the scathing political ones to denounce tyranny and oppression,
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A broken home and uncontrollable anger in Umar Abdul and Ologwu Ekundayo’s The Broken Moon
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Femi Morgan is a drunkard: Review of his Renegade
Share now Ubaji Abubakar Ishaq Eazy opines that Femi Morgan’s Renegade, which touched many aspects of life and society, showed the
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Enemali took me back to those days: A review of Theophilus Enemali’s Homesick in Paradise
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Deep reflections on poetry and existence: A review of Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust
Share now Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust attempts to answer questions related to poetry, existence, creation, and of course
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Commitment and the poet: A review of Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame Hadraawi’s The Poet and the Man
Share now Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy writes that Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame Hadraawi’s The Poet and the Man shows where the poet’s
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