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Immigration Becomes an Unmaking in Salmah Salam Oiza’s Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year
In modern Nigerian culture, the “Japa” story is typically framed as a binary: success or tragedy. Salmah Salam Oiza’s debut collection of poems, Foreign in…
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Ayo Deforge Paints the Woman as a Round Character in the Romantic World of Under the Rain
The woman as a heroine in the victimisation of social conditioning is a fashionable portrait of the protagonist in contemporary romantic fiction. The reader encounters…
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Exploring ‘Poetry in the Time of Crisis’ at KAPFEST 2025
Kano, Nigeria: It’s Friday, September 12, 2025; the sun had just risen with a humming smile, dust spilling around. I marched down from my residence…
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A First Look at Tobi Aluko’s Seagulls and Seashells
The art of poetry is built on the principle of compression, a demand to say the most with the least. To write poetry is to…
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The Mind is Not an Ally review: Ayo Deforge’s Poetic Cartography of Grief and Resilience
Across many African traditions, the mind is not the sovereign it imagines itself to be. The Yoruba show the delineation of this in the inner…
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Where Secrets Live review: Where the Sacred and Supernatural Collide in Magdalene Agweven’s Gripping Debut
Welcome to Owuro Every small town in Nigeria has secrets. Owuro, the fictional Ondo State municipality at the centre of Magdalene Agweven’s debut novel, is…
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“Afamefuna” review: Uncritical Love
Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story, Kayode Kasum’s celebratory stab at the nwa boi system, starts at the end and then advances towards the beginning. It…