Chimezie Chika

Afrocritik’s Notable African Books of 2025
Afrocritik’s Notable African Books of 2025

The good news is that African writers are still firing on all cylinders in all…

Ojirami
“Ojirami: The Weeping River” Review: Immigration, Myth, and Tragedy Swirl in a Play About the Potency of a Deity

The influence of holistic theatre on Christopher’s Ojirami: The Weeping River is a delight. Scenes…

Enugu Photo Festival
Enugu Photo Festival: Architectural Ruins and the Death of Preservation

One of the benefits of architectural preservation is not only to safeguard the timeless aesthetics…

reading
How Should We Read? Akpata Magazine and the Reading Debate

Concentration happens on different levels. The human brain is on a diverse spectrum, and people…

A Meal Is a Meal
“A Meal Is a Meal” Review: Nnamdi Anyadu’s Collection Serves a Balanced Plate of Pleasures

One story after another, A Meal Is a Meal offers us a balanced plate of…

NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Cuttings of 2025: Are African Literary Prizes Out of Touch?

The death of literary criticism is the death of literary culture in the most literal…

Mine Too Counts
“Mine Too Counts” Review: Agbeye Oburumu Gives Voice to the Pains of the Nigerian Masses

What Agbeye Oburumu offers in Mine Too Counts is a chorus that runs through the…

They Killed Ahmet
“They Killed Ahmet” Review: Ikenna Okeh’s Novel Is Trope-Heavy With Flickers of Promise

They Killed Ahmet is majorly sustained by clipped dialogue, which is many times over-burdened with…

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…