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MAY BOOK REVIEW; THE FISHERMEN
Author; Chigozie Obioma (Nigerian) Genre; Fiction Publisher/Year of Publication; Little Brown and Company, April 2015 Number of Pages; 295 (hard copy) Price; $26.00 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
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FLIGHT; A SHORT STORY
The woman who sat by me on the flight from Accra to Takoradi sometime in February had never been on a plane. It was obvious when she asked me to help her fasten her seat belt. It became more obvious as the plane ascended like a bird with a bad limp, and a cold hand…
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DON’T BE A FOOLISH SPOUSE by Sunday Ogidigbo
It takes the presence of a foolish spouse in a marriage for things to go really bad. When the two people in a marriage are foolish however, a disaster is in the works Where you see anything working, it is wisdom that drives it, in like manner, where things are not working, foolishness is the…
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African kids shouldn’t study quantum physics
Or things like that. I had a particularly upsetting day for me during my stint in England in 2010. I was rounding up my studies in Industrial Systems and Management and had been invited for a cocktail by my sponsors. My thesis then was in the fairly esoteric field of ant colony optimisation algorithms and I was quite…
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DEAR WOMAN; Inhale, Exhale, Be.
The first time I ever processed thoroughly the idea of domestic violence against women was four years ago, and I wrote a short story for Ynaija here that ended with a woman dying from abuse and everyone gossiping about it. I had always heard stories of men who beat their wives. I had seen women…
Tope Owolabi 