What Cannot Be Stolen: A Review of Heritage of Loss A few months after the death of Nigerian business magnate Chief Michael Ibru in 2016, sixteen of his children were in court, suing and countersuing each other over a multi-billion-naira estate, with one daughter even demanding paternity tests to determine who was entitled to a […]
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Afrihill Press Unveils First Print Title with Qudus Olowo’s Chapbook A Black Bird Sings About Loss The Nigerian poet, editor, rapper, singer, and songwriter, Qudus Olowo, also known as Blacc, in conjunction with Afrihill Press, is set to launch his poetry chapbook A Black Bird Sings About Loss on April 11, 2026, at the National Library
Photo Credit: Paradise Gate House The Weight of What Moves Us: On Oladosu Michael Emerald’s Debut Poetry Collection Language is not the content of thought but the vessel into which we pour the ambivalences and contradictions of our thinking, afloat on the current of feeling and time. When the vessel becomes too small to hold
Of Intricacy, Futility, and Ephemerality of Life: A Review of Dr. Jim Osita Okeke’s ‘WHAT NEXT?’ “The swell of womb and breast is half human circle; on the crest of the grave’s rise reclines the other; The grave like the yam-mound is earth’s pregnancy life like a dance swing in circles.” –Isidore Diala I have
