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The Plan of Creation in African Tradition
(The Igbo Example) By Nze Ezeoforkire C. Ezenwa From the time European nations conquered Africa, they went on to condemn everything about the cultures they subjugated. Their religion was dismissed as mere paganism and their way of life was abhorred as subhuman. The effects of this so-called “civilising mission” are…
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A Peculiar Tragedy
(J P Clark-Bekederemo and the Beginning of Modern Nigerian Literature in English} By Adewale Maja-Pearce A Peculiar Tragedy is a critical biography of poet and playwright John Pepper Clark, better known as JP Clark, who along with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka (all schoolmates at Nigeria’s University if Ibadan in…
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Vision Impossible
By Isidore Emeka Uzoatu In Vision Impossible Isidore Emeka Uzoatu captures the climate of fear that envelops an African nation in the iron grip of military dictatorship. Junior Obodo, on the wings of love and fresh out of university, takes the battle to the junta with the one weapon it…
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Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art
Edited by Juliet Ezenwa Maja-Pearce Issues in Contemporary Nigerian Art is a survey of modern Nigerian art since the turn of the new millennium. It features contributions from leading Nigerian academics, as well as the artists themselves. It is extensively illustrated throughout. Produced with support from The Ford Foundation, the…
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War Games
By Dulue Mbachu A tender coming-of-age story forged in the crucible of Biafra, War Games is a relentlessly candid and unsentimental reconstruction of a halcyon world suddenly shattered by hate, flight and strife. For Basil Chekwubechukwu Odukwe or Cheche, the good life as a rich landlord’s son in northern Nigeria…
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays
By Adewale Maja-Pearce Ken Saro-Wiwa aroused powerful emotions in his life, and his death by hanging on the orders of General Sani Abacha shook the world. The sainthood of Saro-Wiwa has been promoted in much of the media, but some polemical voices assert that he was more sinner than saint.…
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God of Poetry
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu In God of Poetry, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu succeeds in proving that no subject matter can be spared treatment in verse. From the high to the low, from the mundane to the sublime, Uzoatu teases, taunts and even dares, with the results always agreeable. Even when the…
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Surviving the Storms
By Timi Spiff Timi Spiff’s first published work of fiction, Surviving the Storms, published in June this year by The New Gong, would without doubt be rewarding to anyone who has an interest in good literature. The short novel also suits these times when readers who are barraged by numerous…
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How Not to Be a Nigerian
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria happens to be widely acknowledged as the Giant of Africa. China used to be the apt example of a giant that was fast asleep, which made Napoleon Bonaparte to reportedly quip: “Let her sleep, for when…