I Began Reading Books When…

“Fast forward to teenage hood, I loved poetry and began to scribble some words down and here I am.” Ayamba: Thanks for agreeing to speak to me. You are the creative director of ABUFEST, the only campus-based Arts festival in North of Nigeria. Can you talk to me about the day the idea for this...

Interviews

4th December 2019

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...

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4th December 2019

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.

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3rd December 2019

To Never Land…

Author: Bello Abdullahi Title of Poem: To Never Land Where My Heart Resides. The Podcaster, Bello Abdullahi has his bio in the members’profile section.

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2nd December 2019

I Love Poems That Make Me Feel.

“She told me that I had softness in me. I should use it to my advantage.” Ayamba: I remember once in Kaduna, after a most electric, amazing literary evening at YELF, Muhammad Gulani (Creative Director, ABUFEST) showed me a clip on his phone. It was of you reciting a poem at the 2018 edition of...

Interviews

2nd December 2019

Writing Chooses You, Grows On You And Then…

“Writing chooses you, grows on you and then torments you when you do not indulge it” Ayamba: First of all, why did you choose writing? In a world where there is so much ache and injustice, so much suffering both internal and outward, you have taken up the difficult task of being the voice of...

Interviews

2nd December 2019

Don’t Sell Your World Rights To Anybody!

“Don’t sell your world rights to anybody.” Binyavanga Wainana Ayamba: First of all, I like to prick people about their names. How did you arrive at the initials TJ? I initially thought it was one name until I realized the T stood for Tarfa Tj Benson: It’s Tijani lol. It’s Tarfa Jason for show. It...

Interviews

2nd December 2019

City of Memories

“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...

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1st December 2019

A Sackful of Wishes

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...

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I Began Reading Books When…

THE WHISPERING TREES

Season of Crimson Blossoms

To Never Land…

I Love Poems That Make Me Feel.

Writing Chooses You, Grows On You And Then…

Don’t Sell Your World Rights To Anybody!

City of Memories

A Sackful of Wishes

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