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Travelers
“Gina stayed at her parents for six months, and it was while she was there that she applied for the Zimmer. Exactly six months to the day she left, she walked into our tiny apartment, her eyes shining...
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An Orchestra of Minorities
“He lay by her, saying words which―although she, he and I alone could hear―were also heard in the realm beyond man as thunderous acclamations meant for the ears of man and spirits, the dead and the...
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Be(com)ing Nigerian : A Guide
“HOW TO DIE 1. You have to first understand that death is not a noun or a state. It is an event, the success of which requires proper planning. 2. One way to die is to ensure that in life, you did...
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Umtata
“A town can change a character quickly; one can revisit after only a few months and find it is not the same place as it was when one left. Times change and local councils spend money on new identity...
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The Dictatorship Syndrome
” Whenever I enter or exit Egypt, the authorities pull me to one side and make me wait as they go through my suitcase twice before letting me go. Had they found material for a book, they would have...
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The Smilodon
” Jonathan had to grow uo fast to adapt the changes that were happening around him. After school, he would go to his uncle’s house to have lunch and pick up Richie who now spent the day there because...
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The Enchanted Gift
” That night, as Siyonna lay on her bed waiting for sleep to come, she thought about what Ebele had said. She had always suspected a certain peculiarity about her necklace but had never for one moment...
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“Springtime Memoirs” and Other Poems
SPRINGTIME MEMOIRS ” Shortly before noon’s dusk, December 7th 2012 A.D, I sat on a wooden bench at the bank of the Niger, glancing at the sun set below horizon and reminisced on several odysseys of...
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Transcendent Kingdom : A Novel
” In my bedroom my mother still lay underneath a cloud of covers. A sound like a purr floated out from her lips. I’d been living alone for so long, that even that soft noise, hardly more than a hum,...
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Murder at Midnight
” For me, visiting Kinging Guest Lodge in the Obudu Ranch Resort of Cross River State is always like coming home. I had visited the Lodge earlier in the year; if my memory served me well, it had been...
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Behind the Eclipse
‘Sir, you know, when I was small, I met with a situation which was pretty similar to this. In the neighbouring village, where my grandfather`s brother was the chief, almost everyone died with a very...
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Interview with Pramudith D. Rupasinghe, the author of Behind the Eclipse
The African Book Review : What drew you to writing about Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia ? Pramudith D. Rupasinghe :”I worked as a humanitarian diplomat in that area and explored a lot of West...
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Maame (Mother)
“Everyone froze when they saw Manza with Kofi. Manza was breathless from her brisk walk. Amakyi took his son from her back. He was lifeless. Amakyi gave Kofi to the priestess. Ashen-faced, the...
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Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
“By examining the power of women’s collective political mobilization and their particular role in creating and carrying out a campaign laced with separatist undertones – or, as I phrase it, separatist...
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Mr Batwala’s Farm
“Mr Batwala was a well-known drunkard in his village. He was fond of stroking his goatee and he was seated in his office listening to coffee prices on the BBC World Service. He wanted to find out the...
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Upturned Earth
“They were unschooled, these men who were not able to sign their names or even to read them, and travelled the colonies working as farmhands, stevedores, miners or wagon drivers. (…) They were...
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The Fixer
‘Sir, Raspberry is here. Should I send him in?’ Finally, the governor thought. He was already getting worried. ‘Yes, please’, he said simply. Raspberry was the codename for his special advisor on...
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A Tree for the Birds
“‘You know, Chrisnelt, if you want to see a real tree of truth, the biggest in the City, I should take you to the one at its heart. At the rising place, where all the streets meet all the boulevards...
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TA LE – Book 1:Knowledge
” During Kobenan’s two years in the presidency, he has stepped into the presidential office only twice, despite his office door facing Mr. Kone’s. (…) There have been many threatening and delicate...
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Surviving SAJOMACO : A Nigerian Boarding School Odyssey (to be released in...
“My recollection of events at SAJOMACO is not perfect. It is also predominantly from a boy’s perspective in a mixed school. From the limited conversations I have had with a few of our female...
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