Books

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Poet Scorned: A Review of Dami Ajayi’s “Affection and other Accidents”

Sometimes, poets use their poems as a glimpse into their personal lives, but this collection…

What is Yet Unsaid about Eloghosa Osunde and Her Novel, “Vagabonds!”

To people like herself, Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds! is a letter of kinship. It speaks to…

The Orientations of the Street in Jindu Enugbe’s “Street OT”

…Enugbe leads with great finesse, with so much awareness, giving us sweeping and funny narratives,…

Jennifer Makumbi’s “A Girl is a Body of Water” is a New Height for the African Coming-of-Age Novel

The lives of the characters are subject to the precolonial Ugandan history which foreshadows their…

Caleb Nelson’s Open Water: Literature melds Music and Photography

In the summer of 2019, as what later became Caleb Nelson’s Open Water was produced,…

Afrocritik’s 20 Remarkable African Essays of 2021

By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera There is a widely-held consensus that 2021 is a great year…

Afrocritik’s 25 Notable African Books of 2021

By Joshua Chizoma 2021 is, without doubt, a great year for African writers and writings.…

“Rummaging for Omens”: A Review of Nneoma Otuegbe’s book of poetry

Rummaging for Omens is a book of poetry as much as it is a book…

A Review of Orode’s “Bring Me Flowers in April”

Franklyn, in his second volume of poems, Bring Me Flowers in April, succeeded in looking…

The Ironies of Patriarchy in Igbo Society: a Review of Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s “The Son of the House”

Women use themselves as rods of chastisement on their fellow women, and this becomes a…