Azubuike Obi

African story
A Question of Power: The African Story in the Age of Algorithmic Constructions

When we hold the results of technological systems as absolute, systems that were not built…

Who Gave The Order
Keeper of Memories: “Who Gave The Order” Bears Witness to the Birth of a Revolution

In Who Gave The Order (2025), Chibueze Darlington Anuonye assembles 13 Nigerian writers to bear…

At Sea
Y.M. Abdel-Magied’s “At Sea” Examines Gender in High Stakes Workplace Drama

In At Sea, neither time nor experience is enough to overturn the hands of ingrained…

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…