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  • A Tragedy Without Grandeur

    Although Maja-Pearce would devote considerable space to the analyses of Clark-Bekederemo’s poems, plays, and essays, which he reads for their intrinsic literary values and in comparison to the work of his peers, the weight of his judgment falls on the author’s politics, before, during and after the war. Indeed, the disagreement that ends their accord… Read more

  • Billy Bisa’s Secrets, Mbachu’s Short Stories, Published

    Billy Bisa’s Secrets and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories published by Dulue Mbachu. Eight in number, they were all written between the mid-1980s and the end of the 1990s. A few of them previously appeared in West Africa and BBC Focus on Africa magazines as well as Amazon Shorts and a Read more

  • The Centrist Manifesto

    The Centrist Manifesto

    (Book Review) By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Centrist Manifesto by Uchenna Nwankwo; Centrist Books – An Imprint of Centrist Productions Ltd, Ikeja, Lagos; 2022; 202pp Books that change history do not come as heavy tomes. Back in 1848, the world was shaken up with the publication of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Read more

  • What a Knight?

    By Maxwell Chiedozie Ihedioha She said a very emotional, self-justifying, arrogant prayer reminding God that she would hold Him accountable for any lapses in the care and nurture of her children. She was sitting on his bed, an anxious, care-worn woman in her early thirties. She was light-skinned and wore a dark green dress patterned Read more

  • My Lost Ancestors

    Indeed, with the slave trade came the reign of strong men now celebrated under the prevailing Aro hegemony. This replaced the esteem previously reserved for people of integrity who upheld nsọ ala, respect for the earth, that were celebrated under the preceding Nri epoch. It was a seismic ethical shift, and as the Igbo say,… Read more

  • Pita Nwana, Omenuko and the Carpenter’s Blood

    Pita Nwana, Omenuko and the Carpenter’s Blood

    (Dulue Mbachu writes on a conversation with Mrs Nwaobiara Chukwurah, 86, the only surviving child of Pita Nwana, on life as the daughter of the author of Omenuko, the first novel published in Igbo language.) When the novel Omenuko, by Pita Nwana, was published in 1933, it broke the records as the first printed work Read more