Category: Reviews

Reviews

An Ancient Labour Room of Stars: on Sidi’s The Poet of Dust

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Feb 20, 2023

The poet Umar Abubakar Sidi

by Carl Terver

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Essays Short Stories

Zimbabwe’s Nyashadzashe Celebrates the Short Story with Mukana’s First Anthology, The Newlywed’s Window

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Feb 7, 2023

Nyashadzashe Chikumbu in frame 1; Cover page of The Newlwed's Windows (Mukana Press, 2022) in frame 2

by Carl Terver

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Displacement Poetry, Meta-fluidity, and a little bit of Love and Grief

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Dec 15, 2022

PHOTO: Luper Aluga

by Carl Terver

Tags aladi, arani, carl sandburg, meta-fluidity, oko owi ocho, we will sing water, zeyani

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God Vs. Africa: Ejike Aneke’s Africa Blames God

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jul 27, 2022

Illustration by Orndir Fanen

by Ugochukwu Anadi

Tags africa blames god, christianity, ejike aneke, godsplanation, religion, transatlantic slave trade, ugochukwu anadi

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Julius is the Mote Suspended in the Slow-Moving Music in Teju Cole’s Open City

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Jan 10, 2022

PHOTO CREDIT: Leonardo Cendamo/gettyimages

by Jeff Atuobi

Tags afapinen reviews, James Joyce, jeff atuobi, New York, open city, teju cole, The Dead

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Karen Jennings’ Short Novel of South Africa’s History

Post author By Afapinen
Post date Sep 27, 2021

Author Karen Jennings. (Photo by Carol Coelho)

by Nzube Nlebedim

Tags afapinen reviews, an island, booker prize 2021, holland house, karen jennings, masobe, nzube nledebim

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Amatoritsero Ede’s Eulogy in Teardrops on the Weser

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Aug 13, 2021

PHOTO: Author, Amatoritsero Ede

by Carl Terver

Tags Amatoritsero Ede, carl terver reviews, Griots Lounge, Nigerian poetry, teardrops on the Weser

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A Poet Gives an Answer: The Remarkable Poetry of Ahmed Maiwada’s We’re fish

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 27, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

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Odufa: Othuke Ominiabohs’s Novel of Love & Tragedy

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

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The Pan-African Teenager in Kayinsola Olorunnisola’s In My Country We’re All Crossdressers

Post author By Carl Terver
Post date Jul 26, 2021

PHOTO CREDIT: Orndir Fanen

by Carl Terver

Tags afrobeat, colonialsim, fela, kayinsola review, Nigerian poetry, pan africanism