Azubuike Obi

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…

Born at the End of the World
Love in a Time of Terror: A Review of Donica Merhazion’s “Born at the End of the World”

Inasmuch as Born at the End of the World is about love, it is also…

Mubanga Kalimamukwento
In Conversation: Mubanga Kalimamukwento Talks “The Shipikisha Club” and Reclaiming the Place of Zambian Languages

“If, for generations, entire languages were flogged out of people so that English could be…

Pede Hollist
“Certainty Is the Prerogative of Those With the Power to Exclude and Reject”: Pede Hollist on Displacement, Diaspora, and the Stories We Carry

“I wanted a shorthand for expressing the fluidity and interparticipation of home and abroad in…

The Shipikisha Club
“The Shipikisha Club” Review: Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s Book Is a Mosaic of Motherhood and Deferred Dreams

The Shipikisha Club is a book of “little wisdoms”. It is the work of a…

BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories
“BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories” Review: Immigrant Realities Convene in Pede Hollist’s Collection of Stories

Hollist’s characters are messy, preoccupied with notions of home and belonging, all of them hurtling…

Ike Okonta
“The Situation in Africa Today Is So Urgent”: Ike Okonta on Fiction, Journalism, and Diagnosing the Nigerian Condition

“There is a place for irony and satire in fiction. But the situation in Africa…