Chimezie Chika

This Motherless Land
Nikki May’s “This Motherless Land” Is a Poignant Novel of Loss, Love, and the Divisions of Living Between Two Worlds

This Motherless Land is also a novel about places and the power they hold over…

An Unusual Grief
Grief Touches the Sublime in Yewande Omotoso’s “An Unusual Grief”

An Unusual Grief is a sensitive and tender novel about the peculiar negotiation of grief…

Leave My Bones in Saskatoon
Michael Afenfia’s “Leave My Bones in Saskatoon” and the Burial of Prose Fiction

For the sake of our reputation as a literary powerhouse, books like Leave My Bones in…

Nigeria
Nigeria’s Class Problem and the Nepotism Debate

Nigeria has a serious class problem. As with all such societies, the controlling oligarchy is…

Years of Shame
“Years of Shame” Review: Obinna Udenwe’s Ambitious New Novel Nearly Crumbles Under the Weight of Editorial Issues

Not many recent novels from Nigeria would trump Years of Shame’s innate ethical ambition. It…

Uche Okonkwo
“Readers Will Bring All Kinds of Meaning to Your Work”: Uche Okonkwo, In Conversation with Afrocritik

“When I write child characters, I think about how big some of my childhood moments…

Area Scatter
The Legend of Area Scatter: Enigmatic Musician or Misunderstood Individual?

Area Scatter’s life is proof that history has been replete with personalities operating on the…

AI
Who Wrote This? The Crisis of Criticism in the AI Era

The pivotal question all curious individuals must be asking today is what the future of…

Dhee Sylvester
Dhee Sylvester: The Designer Revolutionising Nigerian Book Covers

“As much as I want people to buy books because they like the cover, I…

A Raised Hand in Greeting Left Unanswered
The Obscured Realities in Shegun Oseh’s Smokescreen Images

A keen observer would notice that much of Shegun Oseh’s work is the conscious artistic…