Reviews
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 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 …
“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.
“The careful mixing of history and fiction is intriguing and not something many are able to pull off without bias, but Richard Ali does a moderately good job of it.” In Richard Ali’s debut novel, City of Memories, love is given a prominent place as the cause of almost all the events that occur throughout …
There is beauty in the way Azizah portrays her characters with a sense of realness and humour in the face of pain and despair. Written as a sort of memoir, A Sackful of Wishes is a tragic telling of a life through the eyes of young Hadiza Musa. It takes us through her turbulent married …