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Why is book scanning services growing?

The best book scanning service will not cost your company unnecessary bucks!…

Hope James

Rough Diamonds: Chapter One

Dive into Rough Diamonds: Begin the captivating journey with Chapter One.

Maryam Otuh

A basket of nerves: My story at a writers’ workshop

Have you ever felt like if you step into a room full…

Hauwa Saleh

A focus on Hausa folklore and culture: Why madness and mental trouble?

Abstract: Traditionally, the Hausas believed in divergent number of ways in which an…

Abu-Ubaida Sani

An image of Northern Nigeria’s marital and gender-based controversies: A survey of Abubakar Gimba’s Sacred Apples

Being a paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Ethnic Nationalities, Cultural…

Abu-Ubaida Sani

Young women in contemporary Nigeria: A review of “29 Single and Nigerian” by Naija Single Girl

The novelist and famous feminist Chimamanda Adichie once wrote that, “A woman…

Raheemah Arogundade

Afrofuturism: The unapologetic African narrative

Africa, as we may well know, is the bedrock of civilisation and…

Hafsah Dauda

Creative writing: How to write stories that inspire

There are ten thousand ways to go insane in this life and…

Hauwa Saleh

Young African writers: Breaking barriers and shifting paradigms

Don't you want to pick up a novel and read the words…

Hafsah Dauda

5 Best online sources for free college textbooks

It's no news that college textbooks do not come cheap. While grappling…

Jamila Mustapha

Against the Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated in Nigeria

Author: Olusegun Adeniyi Publisher: Kachifo limited Category: Non-fiction Publication Year: 2017 Pages: 221 Against the Run of…

Nurudeen Lawal

This Red Sun Must Set: A review of Red Sun by Dolapo Lawrence

Title: Red Sun Author: Dolapo Lawrence Genre: Fiction Pages: 290 Published: 2014…

Nurudeen Lawal

Class struggle between the Patricians and the Plebeians

Abstract Against the backdrop of the crucial issue of class politics in…

Nurudeen Lawal

The links between literature and the society: A brief review

So many definitions of literature have been put up. In the context…

Nurudeen Lawal

Top ten journals for literary scholars and students

One of the most emphasized catchphrases in the world of academia is…

Nurudeen Lawal

Proverbs in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God

Proverbs are short witty statements that give a position or an opinion…

Nurudeen Lawal

Poverty as a catalyst for psychological disorder: A case study of J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K.

Abstract This article examines the complementary relationship between poverty and human psychology…

Nurudeen Lawal

Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A reflection of oral tradition and socio-historical realities

Though the freshest of the literary genres in Africa, African fiction is…

Nurudeen Lawal

A brief review of Niyi Osundare’s ‘Wife Batterer’s Blues’

‘Wife Batterer’s Blues’is a thirty line, six stanza poem written by Niyi…

Nurudeen Lawal

Re-reporting Africa to the diaspora through literature

To re-report simply means to ‘report again’, that is, to provide a…

Nurudeen Lawal

A brief review of A Blessing in Disguise by Ifeanyi Ifoegbuna

Title: A Blessing in Disguise Author: Ifeanyi Ifoegbuna Publisher: Lantern Books Country: Nigeria Language: English Genre: Children’s Fiction…

Nurudeen Lawal

A brief review of Happy Days Ahead by Anuli Ausbeth-Ajagu

Title: Happy Days Ahead Author: Anuli Ausbeth-Ajagu Illustrator: Kola Fayemi Publisher: Lantern Books Country: Nigeria Language: English Genre: Children’s…

Nurudeen Lawal

Celebrating Flora Nwapa’s 86th posthumous birthday

I write because I want to write. I write because I have…

Nurudeen Lawal

Top eleven resourceful websites for literary students

Students in the current age have got no excuse for failure. Technology…

Nurudeen Lawal

Naming in Yoruba culture

“What is in a name? That which we call a rose by…

Nurudeen Lawal

David Diop’s Africa: A short stylistic analysis

David Mandessi Diop (1927-1960) was a Bordeaux-born Senegalese poet. He spent most…

Nurudeen Lawal

Women according to Yorùbá proverbs

Proverb, by definition, is a piece of folk wisdom expressed with terseness…

Nurudeen Lawal

The politics of plundering: Reviewing Niyi Osundare’s ‘The Emperor and the DollarRain’

Introduction Niyi Osundare is a distinguished professor of English, a prolific poet…

Nurudeen Lawal

From the toad to the throne: A brief review of Kekere

Author/ Publisher  Lantern Books Title                Kekere…

Nurudeen Lawal

Treading the lonely path: A review of Omotayo Yusuf’s Hero

Omotayo Yusuf is my friend. The one I am proud of. Together…

Nurudeen Lawal

A review of ‘The Lost Beach’ by Patience Ezinwoke

Author            Patience Ezinwoke Title                The Lost Beach Country          Nigeria Language       English Genre …

Nurudeen Lawal

Reflecting on Nigeria’s oil: A critique of Niyi Osundare’s ‘Oily Blues’

What will Nigeria do when oil has passed out of favour? What…

Nurudeen Lawal
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