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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...

Ezioma Kalu

Sep 9, 20234 min read

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

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

Aug 25, 20232 min read

Book Review: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Blurb There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have...

Ezioma Kalu

Aug 25, 20232 min read

Book Review: His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie.

Blurb Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother,...

Ezioma Kalu

Aug 20, 20234 min read

Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Blurb Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the...

Ezioma Kalu

Aug 20, 20233 min read

Book Review: Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo.

Blurb Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband,...

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