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This House Is Not For Sale – E.C. Osondu | A Review by Okwudili Nebeolisa

Grandpa and His Mystical House An old house, a patriarch, and its numerous inhabitants with incredible pasts… E.C. Osondu stamped his name as one of Nigeria’s finest contemporary writers with his debut book Voice of America (VOA), a short story collection which came out in 2010. It was in VOA that his Caine Prize-winning story […]

Gambit. Newer African Writing – Emmanuel Iduma & Shaun Randol (Eds.) | A Review by Gilbert Braspenning

A Gambit is a first move in a game, mostly chess. And, this anthology of lovely stories is published as a first move, a trigger for writers and editors to publish more of its kind. A trigger also to show the literary world how beautiful Africa’s literature at its best could look like. In the […]

Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite – Terri Ochiagha | A Review by Sola Adeyemi

Known by several names in its nearly a century as a centre of building character and developing intellect, including Primus Inter Pares among all Government Colleges in Nigeria and ‘The Eton of the East’, Government College Umuahia (GCU) has been one of the more important secondary schools in Nigeria. Founded as a teacher training institution […]