A couple of years ago, I had to check in at the airport for a trip to school. The lady at one of the checkpoints was...
Lie To me, Dan by Longrin Wetten is brilliantly written; it captures almost perfectly, the activities in a regular Nigerian university and transforms it into a beautiful...
On “Literally What’s Hot” OkadaBooks exposes a whole new level of African writing that defies convention and shatters the literary landscape with boldness and class. So...
There is a saying in Yoruba: “Omo mi ku san ju omo mi nu lo” – {My child is dead is more bearable than my child...
Teleporting is possible. I started to read Aziza Walker’s The Seeing Place on a Saturday afternoon in Lagos. Before I knew it, I was transported to...
As culturally sophisticated as Nigerians have become, when it comes to books, we have a boxed set of expectations that allows no room for curves, experiments...
Forget what you have heard in the past and what people will try to tell you about truth being sacrosanct; it is subjective. There’s a version...
Words: those little things that give life to our feelings, our depth and our identities. Words are what tie this eclectic anthology together. The title These...
I have to begin by apologizing to the author and the good people at Bella Naija. I was asked to review this book about two months...
Everyone has said something about Nigeria’s numerous problems and opportunities. There’s nothing new under the Sun. Nevertheless, for the ignorant, the forgetful, the curious, the historians...
When I was told to review a cookbook, I was mightily excited. This is totally new territory for me despite spending what must be years of...
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