The title of this book is what appeals to you at first. Why will a Nigerian woman want to be a serial killer? Are there even serial killers in Nigeria? Isn’t it a western thing? Isn’t she mental? These are…
If you have been following THE NEWS, you may have come across the story of two men who took turns in raping a young lady after spiking her drink with a depressant. They also went ahead to film the act….
“Rachel Ige’s writing is beautiful.” The above words were the first thoughts that came to mind when I was just two pages into her book – Memory and Other Shards. I began reading it in the wee hours of the…
Happy New Year! I can’t believe I’m churning out my first review of the year on the 15th day of January. So much for new year goals. Nonetheless, I’m happy to share my review of BORN A CRIME by TREVOR…
Featured Image culled from HomeLandReview A Book Review by Okey Erinne. Who on earth hatches a plot to steal a deity? Only Ikechukwu Uzondu! When Ike, an alumnus of an American University, first reads about Foreign Gods, Inc., he cannot…
I called this a mini-review because talking about this book in its totality would be to give all of its content away and I don’t want to do that. If you do not own this little yet insightful book by…
“We teach girls that they can’t be sexual beings in the way boys are. We teach girls shame…we make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be…
I really enjoyed reading Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream To The Sun. I enjoyed it for so many reasons. First of all, it reminded me of one of my favourite series; This Is Us. It reminded me of the sheer…
Poetry as we know it is evolving. What really is poetry? How should a poem be structured? What rules should a poet follow? I personally think there is no rule as to what a poem should look like. Poetry should…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERICANAH has been selected by the New York Times’s staff book critics as one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” This list of…
