Book Review
Book Review: What Happened To Janet Uzor by M.E.N
What happened to Janet Uzor by Miracle Emeka-Nkwor has caused quite the buzz on social media. This has created interest and attention in the Nigeria Reading Community. The mystery novel was published by Masobe books in the year 2021, and has maintained leaving readers in awe. What has Emeka-Nkwor written differently? This book […]
Book Review: Who Drove Nearly All Lagos Men Mad?
Who Drove Nearly All Lagos Men Mad? was written by Ugochukwu Ugonna and published by Agbalumo Publishing Services in 2023. The collection of short stories caught the attention of Nigerian readers due to its title. Thereby stirring curiosity for readers. This article takes its readers through a review of Who Drove Nearly All Lagos […]
Passing Film Explained: Review Of The Movie Adaptation Of Nella Larson’s Novel.
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 […]
A Literary Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness And Its Influence On Chinua Achebe.
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. […]
New Awesome Book Alert: Going Short, An Invitation to Flash Fiction by Nancy Stohlman
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 […]
Juggling Three Balls: A Review of Mmirinzo by Achalugo
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 […]
Review: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
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 […]
Learning to Un-Worry, On Reading Dale Carnegie’s “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”.
Until very recently, I didn’t know how to stop worrying. 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 […]
Musih Tedji Xavière’s Fabiola as a Bildungsroman in Progress: A Review By Eric Ngea Ntam (PhD)
Book title: Fabiola Author: Musih Tedji Xaviere Publisher: Maryland Printers, Bamenda Year published: 2017 Number of pages: 221 Where I got it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073WY8XCH https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/xaviere Why I read it: I was intrigued by the idea of reading an African YA novel When I read it: 2017 Review written by: Eric Ngea Ntam (PhD) The […]
Recommended Short Stories You Can Read Online. This Edition Features Stories by Howard B. Maximus, Ope Adedeji and Tochukwu Okafor.
A Review of Some of the Best Short Stories by Africans available online. The one thing that makes a short story good is what it makes you feel after you have read that last sentence. But there are other things—the freshness of the story (nobody wants the same old stories), the finesse of the prose […]