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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 seemed to detest most: the… Read more

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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 book was officially presented to… Read more

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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 suddenly turns nightmarish as the… Read more

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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. In the title essay of… Read more

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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 meaning eludes you, the rhythm… Read more

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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 media platforms hardly have enough… Read more

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