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…
By Oyin Oludipe “Rafka” challenges the poet: “How can you describe a pain you haven’t felt?” The poet retorts: Pain. She has “no language … only taste and touch.” His intimation also is that “She touches us in different ways…
“You are unique in a very special way; endowed with super qualities that no other person executes the way you do. I want you to be believe these words because this is the first step to cashing your passion.” -Lynda…
By Oyin Oludipe Not long ago, it was reported that one president—a flawless depiction, by the way, of what our generation has devolved into—uttered something about African nations and shitholes. The aggregate African response? Flames and flames of ire. For…
On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group – Boko Haram. Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never…
