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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Oct 24, 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: 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: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Blurb Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 28, 20232 min read
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Book Review: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Blurb Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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Book Review: Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Blurb A revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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Book Review: Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Blurb As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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