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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Nov 2, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Nov 2, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Oct 26, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 28, 20233 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20233 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20234 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 22, 20236 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
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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?...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20236 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 20, 20235 min read
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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John.
Blurb In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Blurb Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon.
Blurb Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial “secret keeper” of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
Blurb When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach,...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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Book Review: Wives At War by Flora Nwapa
Blurb From Flora Nwapa comes another collection of absorbing short stories centered around women. Common to all stories is the...
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 5, 20235 min read
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Book Review: Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen.
Blurb Ewaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage and incessant quarreling....
Ezioma Kalu
Sep 2, 20235 min read
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