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
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 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 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 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 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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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,...
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Ezioma Kalu
Sep 2, 20235 min read
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....
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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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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's wives by Lola Shoneyin.
Blurb African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Blurb A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends...
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Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
Book Review: Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo.
Blurb Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives,...
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