Azubuike Obi

The Loud Silence Between Us
Justice Faruck’s “The Loud Silence Between Us” Is A Novel of Noble Ideas and Faulty Execution

The Loud Silence Between Us could have been an intimate story about a sheltered girl…

Salt in the Snow
“Salt in the Snow” Review: Displacements and Shifting Identities Come Together in Sahra Noor’s Debut Memoir

Salt in the Snow examines, amongst other things, the concept of shifting identities: the ways…

Many Ways to Die
An Odyssey of Small Lives: A Review of Famous Chukwuemeka’s “Many Ways to Die”

Many Ways to Die succeeds because of its capacious ability to reimagine worlds and deliver…

Someone Should Hold Farida
The North Is Retelling Its Story: A Review of Flame Tree’s “Someone Should Hold Farida”

Someone Should Hold Farida pulses with characters who are aplomb, assured of their place in…

Jude Dibia
In Conversation: Jude Dibia Talks “The Quiet That Remains”, Love, and the Lives Literature Refuses to Overlook

“I’ve always believed literature can enlarge our capacity for empathy. A novel allows us to…

Obase-Sam Ikoi
In Conversation: Obase-Sam Ikoi Reflects on Writing “The Comedian’s Diary” and the Necessity of Hope

“Violence and abuse are usually not dramatic and easily recognisable as we would like it…

The Quiet That Remains
“The Quiet That Remains” Review: Hope Lingers for Damaged Souls in Jude Dibia’s Fourth Novel

The Quiet That Remains is about many things, chief amongst them the concept of changing…

Let Us Conspire and Other Stories
“Let Us Conspire and Other Stories” Investigates Marginal Identities Amidst Loss and Grief

From the experimental to the conventional, with preoccupations at once personal and political, universal and…

The Comedian’s Diary
“The Comedian’s Diary” Review: Obase-Sam Ikoi’s Debut Novel Challenges Traditional Forms of the Novel in Its Portrait of Addiction

The Comedian’s Diary is a sobering portrait of the capability of community in the face…

In Our Own Ways
Sisterhood and a Fractured Marriage: A Review of Yejide Kilanko’s “In Our Own Ways”

Although In Our Own Ways is ostensibly about class and a fractured marriage, the enduring…