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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...

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...

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?...

Ezioma Kalu

Sep 9, 20234 min read

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

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 1, 20233 min read

Book Review: I Was a Teen Rock Star! by A.H. Mohammed.

Blurb Sixteen year old Lanre Bandele finds solace in his music and dreams of being professional musician. Can dreams come true? Maybe. An...

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