Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite – A morbidly funny slashfest

Sibling loyalty comes under pressure in a Lagos-set debut that mixes crime, love story and family saga   With a title like that, you expect a bel

‘Full-length story can also be told in poetic form’

Emmanuel Ayibaemi Frank-Opigo has said that his new book ‘The Song of Our Father’, is meant to show that a full-length story can also be told in poetr

Why I explored jury trials in my stories – Sasi Miet Jaja

Sasi Miet Jaja is author of ‘Justice Club’, which won the 2018 ANA/Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories. He is also author of novels such as ‘A Trea

Why I wrote ‘Echoes Across the Niger’ – Onigegewura

A lawyer and historian, Lanrewaju Akinsola, popularly known as Onigegewura, has explained that the major reason why he wrote his new book, ‘Echoes Acr

Why Michelle Obama’s memoir should have demanded more of us

Becoming is laden with inspirational symbolism and patriotic platitudes – but this reflects the wider pressure to use language approved by other