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Book Review: What Happened To Janet Uzor by M.E.N

Jul 8, 2022by Chiziterem Chijioke0

Book Title: What Happened To Janet Uzor Author: Miracle Emeka-Nkwor Publisher/Year: Masobe Books / 2021 Number of Pages: 200 Name of Reviewer: Chiziterem Chijioke. Blurb of What Happened To Janet Uzor A year after their best friend, Janet Uzor dies in a drowning incident, Pamela and Ebere are trying to cope and...

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Passing Film Explained: Review Of The Movie Adaptation Of Nella Larson’s Novel.

Jan 9, 2022by Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam0

Nominated by Time Magazine as one of the best movies of 2021, ”Passing” is a masterpiece. But this film is so complicated, it deserves to be explained and reviewed, hence the massive online search for “Passing Film Explained”. Particularly, the ambiguous ending. If this wasn’t the case, “Passing film ending” and “Passing film summary” won’t...

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A Literary Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness And Its Influence On Chinua Achebe.

Mar 6, 2021by Chiziterem Chijioke0

Like in Most of Literatures of the Empires there is Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness The Saturday Nation in Nairobi has been intermittently publishing discourses about Joseph Conrad the author of Heart of Darkness. On 15th January 2017, it published a page-long article about Chinua Achebe and Joseph Conrad, the article was written by Mr....

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New Awesome Book Alert: Going Short, An Invitation to Flash Fiction by Nancy Stohlman

Sep 8, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

From a notable flash fiction writer, Nancy Stohlman, comes a book on the craft of flash fiction, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction. The book, which drops October 15, 2020, is a magical thing, packed with smart tips on doing flash fiction well. So, What’s Going Short About: From the press release: “Flash fiction...

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Juggling Three Balls: A Review of Mmirinzo by Achalugo

Aug 3, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi2

Book Title: Mmirinzo Author: Achalugo Chioma Ezekobe Length: 283 Genre: African Speculative Fiction Publisher/ Year: Winepress/ 2020 Source: Got a copy from a friend Reviewed by: Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí Mmirinzo by Achalugo begins simply. Olivia will be twenty-eight in a few months. She has bucket lists to tick before her twenty-eight birthday, and her younger...

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Review: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Jul 6, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

Book Title: The Calculating Stars Author: Mary Robinette Kowal Number of pages: 431 Publisher/Year: Tom Doherty Associates/2018 Where I got it: BarnesandNoble.com Why I read it: I have a strong interest in books depicting women as strong and achieving their dreams, while not ignoring the struggles faced along the way Rating: 5/5 Reviewed by: Spencer...

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Learning to Un-Worry, On Reading Dale Carnegie’s “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”.

Jan 2, 2020by Ernest Ogunyemi0

Until very recently, I worry about everything I can think up. I refreshed my email so many times a day that if it, my email, had a kind of hand, it would have run a fist into my face for not letting it rest. I worried about the fact that the previous year was folding...

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