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Burma boys and strange wars

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:22 administrator

By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)

Contd. from last Wednesday

The book’s other major failure is in not mining what is truly harrowing – the fact that these soldiers were indeed little boys conscripted to fight a war by their elders. Once you get to that realization, several passages in the book assume a haunting surrealism, like during a particularly wretched passage to India; of little boys stowing away their mothers’ delicacies (kuli-kuli and dawadawa) as they go to the war in Burma:

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Restless Diary: Yellow-Yellow Rivers of Dreams (I)

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:22 administrator

By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)

August 2007. I am alive. I just shook myself off a journey that I was definitely unprepared for. Ogun has sacrificed a mangy dog on behalf of my shivering spirits and thunderous sparks of fire mark Sango’s outrage at that cursed spot on America’s highway where the cutlass, hungry metal danced pangolo on a concrete road waiting for me, bush meat for evil deities. My faithful SUV looks like the broken trap that barely missed a prize antelope. I am alive, lucky antelope, and Sopono says to Iku, a pox on all your friends and our enemies! There will be another day when that journey will begin for me. But not now. Life is short.

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Reading The Tale of the Harmattan from Cape Town

Wednesday, 02 May 2012 01:01 administrator

By Dike Okoro

Absorbing, startling and uncannily pitched to public and private issues that penetrate the social climate and upheaval of present-day Nigeria and Africa might be the best way to describe prolific Nigerian scholar-poet, Tanure Ojaide’s new poetry collection, The Tale of the Harmattan.

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Burma boys and strange wars

Wednesday, 02 May 2012 01:01 administrator

By Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)

“No European writer could have written Things Fall Apart”, says Ernest Emenyonu, who chairs the department of Africana studies at the University of Michigan at Flint. It was “a new kind of writing,” for two reasons: the first was the way Achebe made the colonizer’s language his own. By incorporating Igbo speech patterns, proverbs, folk tales and beliefs, he invented an English that could “articulate African aesthetics and African poetics.” The second was that he “explored the psychology of imperial conquest” and challenged Eurocentric views.

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Book Review

Friday, 27 April 2012 21:24 administrator

Book Title:     Real Babes Love Jesus
Author:          Grace Ozioma Onotu
Publishers:    Bethel Creations.
Reviewer:      Joy Baba

“Real Babes Love Jesus” (2012) by Grace Ozioma Onotu is a book which turn search light on how ladies should live their lives to fulfill their God ordained mission in this perverse generation.

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