Reading Uneasy Vastness
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by Tade Ipadeola
3y ago
By Tade Ipadeola Title: Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition Editors: Sarala Krishnamurthy and Helen Vale Publisher: University of Namibia Press Number of pages: 379 Year of publication: 2018 Category: Essays Namibia hosts pristine terrain, geologists and biologists tell us, holding vital clues from the time the planet became the right temperature to support life. The country is ..read more
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A Review of An Orchestra of Minorities
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by Vuyo Mzini
3y ago
By Vuyo Mzini Title: An Orchestra of Minorities Author: Chigozie Obioma Publisher: Parrésia Publishers Ltd Number of pages: 512 Year of publication: 2019 Category: Fiction The film, Joker, released in 2019 and starring Joaquin Phoenix, portrays the descent of a simple and harmless man into madness. The primary reason is the ugliness with which the world ..read more
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The Waves Bring Back Memories
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by Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke
3y ago
By Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Title: Questions for the Sea Author: Stephen Symons Publisher: uHlanga Press Number of pages: 81 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Poetry ‘The waves bring back even things we haven’t lost’, a line from Yehuda Amichai’s poem ‘The Seashore’, is the epigraph that opens Questions for the Sea by Stephen Symons. This line is ..read more
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War: What Is It Good For?
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by Vuyo Mzini
3y ago
By Vuyo Mzini Title: The Forest Dames Author: AdaOkere Agbasimalo Publisher: Parrésia Publishers Ltd Number of pages: 303 Year of publication: 2014 Category: Fiction AdaOkere Agbasimalo’s book, published in 2014 and titled The Forest Dames, is a fictional rendition of events that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. A reader not resident in Nigeria (and ..read more
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Enemies Within: A Review of Kọ́lá Akínlàdé’s Ta L’olè Ajọ́mọgbé?
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by Ayodele Ibiyemi
3y ago
By Ayodele Ibiyemi  Title: Ta L’olè Ajọ́mọgbé? Author: Kọ́lá Akínlàdé Publisher: University Press PLC Number of pages: 151 Year of publication: 1992 Category: Fiction Kọ́lá Akínlàdé’s novel, Ta L’olè Ajọ́mọgbé? (Who is the Kidnapper?), was published in 1992, when Nigeria was preparing to return to democracy. Akínlàdé belongs to a generation of authors who wrote in their native Yorùba ..read more
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Papa Was a Rolling Stone
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by Vuyo Mzini
3y ago
By Vuyo Mzini Title: I Want to See the Sun Rise Author: Sam Shakong Publisher: Xarra Books Ltd Number of pages: 208 Year of publication: 2019 Category: Autobiography Fatherhood is tenuous. At the worst of times, a level of substantiating proof is required to know the true paternity of a child and claim fatherhood. At ..read more
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Tori Don Worhwor
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by Adebiyi Olusolape
3y ago
By Adebiyi Olusolape Title: Sozaboy Author: Ken Saro-Wiwa Publisher: Saros International Publishers Number of pages: 186 Year of publication: 1985 Category: Fiction At the end of the novel Sozaboy, the protagonist, the man-child named Mene, has become a ghost. He has become not a ghost of himself but a proper ghost, a proper wraith, an evil spirit ..read more
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Better than Anything: Sally Andrew’s Story of Love and Food
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by Vuyo Mzini
4y ago
By Vuyo Mzini Title: Death on the Limpopo Author: Sally Andrew Publisher: Umuzi Number of pages: 414 Year of publication: 2019 Category: Fiction The first verse of the duet between renowned songsters Natalie Cole and Diana Krall, titled ‘Better than Anything’, lists food items that are good but that do not quite measure up to ..read more
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Lady Na Master: A Review of Makwala, E E Sule’s Novel of Complexities
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by Vuyo Mzini
4y ago
By Vuyo Mzini Title: Makwala Author: E E Sule Publisher: Parrésia Publishers Ltd Number of pages: 326 Year of publication: 2018 Category: Fiction In a 2013 interview on YouTube with Commonwealth Writers, as part of the publicity for his winning the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Africa region, E E Sule describes the inspiration for his ..read more
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Of Tragedy and Comedy: A Review of Youssef Fadel’s A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me
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by Nureni Ibrahim
4y ago
By Nureni Ibrahim  Title: A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me Author: Youssef Fadel Translator: Alexander E Elinson Publisher: Hoopoe Number of pages: 220 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Fiction ‘The production and consumption of text and discourse serve particular purposes. Apart from aesthetic ones, which are studied in poetics and stylistics, texts represent social values ..read more
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