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Poetry is a tool that has been used by several people to meet different needs, and in the hands of a skilled practitioner becomes a fitting buffet that readers will relish. Moremi Akano’s A Woman’s Studio is a chapbook of twelve short poems that capture the spirit of the author’s enterprise as a broadcaster and artist that…
Michael Olugbenga Olobadola’s Owuro Rising is a novel that gestures towards poetry, not in the conventional sense of form or metre, but in the texture of its language, the way it listens to voice, silence, and affect. The book is the first volume of a trilogy and does not rush to deliver a self-contained arc. It establishes…
In an era when identity is increasingly mediated by global images and digital noise, the need to return to the intimacies of place and ancestry has taken on renewed urgency especially with younger authors. More African artists have taken on this mantle with great evidence showing on the poetry scene with such examples in Nigeria…
