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Reviews
A Review of When I’m Eighteen by Victor Ugwu
Title:When I’m Eighteen. Author: David Ishaya Osu “Love is when you drink a sour orange and still call it orange.” When I’m Eighteen is a collection of free consciousness, unrestricted movements and unpatented craft; a crossroads of meanings wearing shades of abstractions (and dreams). We are offered a world of gold embroidered with recurring enjambments. …
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora
This collection is a tapestry of beautiful works of fiction. They satisfy even the pickiest of readers… Dominion is a beautiful rendition of the world through the eyes of 12 authors spread across continents. It celebrates a rich roll of imaginations, definitions about home and culture. The subject matter is diverse yet held together by …
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A Review of Painted Blue with Saltwater by Victor Ugwu
The poet, Logan February identifies as non-binary. All pronouns referring to the poet as he should please be read as they. Blue is for BodiesWe are onions. Logan is a layer of bodies; blue, brown, salty, queer, and broken; a collection of misplaced people drowning him into his own skin, into a language, dead and …
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Inside The Flower Room
Inside the flower room is a journey into Saddiq Dzukogi’s soul. Like a tree, it has different branches in the way it encompasses his family life, grief, and parental challenges. In beautiful ways, Saddiq evokes the death of his grandmother, who he writes about as an angelic presence in his life, and the birth of …
Measuring Time
“Measuring time is a tale that can be read through the ages, subtle, and slow paced, it takes a bit of patience to go through until the end, but will always be a worthwhile endeavour.” How do you measure time when it flies so fast that a decade feels like an hour? It is the …
Fire on the Tip of Ice
Fire on the tip of Ice is a collection of stories about everyday life, rendered simply yet engaging. Fire on the tip of Ice is a collection of 9 stories. It is evident from the start that these stories are written by someone with an understanding of humanity. Irora is a story of heartache and …
Freshwater
Honestly, Yshwa, I just want to rest. Let me find a place where even if I’m alone, I can sit on my veranda and look at a mango tree and we can just talk. You will be the words in my mouth and the ones that fall from my fingers; you will be the one …
THE WHISPERING TREES
The Whispering Trees is a collection of stories, each with a unique outlook. There is no single theme that the stories follow, but all have a certain flair for dramatics; a sort of entertaining characterization that brings the stories alive, there is passion and magic, places and people we can relate to. Twilight and Mist …
Season of Crimson Blossoms
“Hajiya Binta Zubairu was finally born at fifty-two when a dark-lipped rogue with short, spiky hair, like a field of miniscule anthills, scaled her fence and landed, boots and all, in the puddle that was her heart.” Season of Crimson Blossoms.