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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Book Review: A broken people's playlist by Chimeka Garricks
Blurb A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into...
Ezioma Kalu
Aug 20, 20232 min read
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