New Year, New Chapter
New Year, New Chapter ‘Read more books’ is likely to be on quite a few new year’s resolution lists. It is a noble endeavour and one I very much support, but I can understand the difficulty that necessitates making it a resolution. Before you begin reading, it’s hard to tell that the 4.35 hours that […]
The Reading List: Week 3, 2018
New Year, New Books! So many books are release every week and we do not want you to miss out on the gems. Every week, we will be collating the books that you need to add to your TBR list. These are must haves for all our readers. Enjoy! Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by […]
Introducing… Octavia Butler
“Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. I am also comfortably asocial—a hermit…. A pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” – Octavia […]
The Five Minute Book Review: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
‘As a black woman, race has always been a prominent part of my life. I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country. My blackness is woven into how I dress each morning, what bars I feel comfortable going to, what music I enjoy, what […]
The Diaspora (Book) Wars – Race Switch: Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett & Black No More by George S. Schuyler
First Line of Attack The first lines of the novel “Furo Wariboko awoke this morning to find that dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong side of sleep. “ Arena of War The setting and the situation of the story Setting: Modern day Lagos, Nigeria. Premise: The novel explores what it […]
Read the World: 10 Nigerian writers writing about Lagos
Lagos is one of the biggest cities in Africa, and a prime destination for anyone visiting the continent. Lagos, with a population of over 20 million from various walks of life, is truly the melting pot of Nigeria. Like any ‘Big City’, it is where everyone comes to ‘make it’, and therefore it is a perfect location for […]