Ezioma Kalu
Book Review: Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola.
Blurb Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Nov 2, 20234 min read
Book Review: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Blurb Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they...
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Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney.
Blurb Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so...
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Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: All Shades of Iberibe by Kasimma.
Blurb In the Nigerian language Igbo "iberibe" means "messed up." This stunning short story collection by Kasimma grabs readers and pulls...
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Ezioma Kalu
Oct 24, 20233 min read
Book Review: God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu.
Blurb In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 28, 20233 min read
Book Review: Tomorrow Died Yesterday by Chimeka Garricks.
Blurb Its 2004 Port Harcourt at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry and four lives are...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi.
Blurb Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20233 min read
Book Review: Of This Our Country
Blurb To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Book Review: The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa.
Blurb Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20234 min read
Book Review: Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro.
Blurb Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
Book Review: Daughters who walk this path by Yejide Kilanko.
Blurb SPIRITED AND INTELLIGENT, MORAYO grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan. An adoring little...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
Book Review: Devil's Pawn by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson.
Blurb When the Black Cats join their capone to “punish” a fellow student, they have no idea the terror they are about to unleash. When...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 21, 20234 min read
Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Blurb Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
Book Review: International Sisi Eko & Other Stories.
Blurb A desperate doctor commits murder to appease his wife. A drug-dealing family comes undone following a police raid. A young...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20236 min read
Book Review: A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
Blurb In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother?...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
Book Review: Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
Blurb An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Kintu If there's one thing the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20234 min read
Book Review: When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase.
Blurb Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began therapy hoping to find the reasons behind her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
Book Review: Kambili by Obiageli Iloakasia
Blurb In "Kàmbílí", adults, young people, and children are all affected by the realities of life. The poems, ordered according to...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
Book Review: Happiness Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Blurb Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
Book Review: Choose Me by Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver.
Blurb Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant...so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene...
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