Book Review: ‘a brief history of july’ is a chapbook in which Tares does not intend to recount the watermarked history of moments in his life.
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A review of Clinton Durueke’s Eureka that seeks to interpret its political undertones while acknowledging that meaning is this collection may be many-sided.
This historical overview of the political and leadership structure in olden days Igbo society is needed in other to shed light on the idea that give birth to the time and place setting, and the type of political leadership structure in the play Verdict Of The Gods. The playwright employs this type of political structure in the text and that is what we are going to highlight.
Immortal Words is a collection, woven from the heart of a pensive writer, for souls to be lifted in the humanistic nature, crafted in diverse artistic tongues.
The male child in an African home is as a diamond, an heir – the definition of permanence. And this is where the pressure begins. He is born into idealistic responsibilities thrust on him by a culture that keeps passing on the mythical baton of misery.
The Heresaid is about an author, Zumba, who is accused of heresy by a monarch. The monarch sends his Faithfuls- Axe, Avenger, Doom, Sword and Machet to kill him. The author (Zumba) pleads with Monarch to pardon him (Pg. 21), he also pleads with Reason to rescue his life- to plead on his behalf (Pg. 23).
In Ozoemena (No More Weeping), Opia-Enwemuche Maxwell Onyemaechi uses the armament of poetry to continue a long tradition of telling and retelling of a history that is deliberately suppressed by politically motivated revisionist and distortionist.
In the “Missing Book of St. Valentine”, Opia-Enwemuche Maxwell Onyemaechi a true disciple of love passes to us instructions he received from the revered Saint.
No Such Thing As Halfway: A Novel tells the story of a young African couple and their long-distance romance against tribal forces that threaten to tear it apart. An exhilarating novel of immeasurable emotional power, No Such Thing As Halfway asks how much we are willing to sacrifice for the sake of love or for the sake of family.
It is often said that writers are agents of change. Believe me, this goes beyond the surface to encompass the fact that every writer has a message in their heart which they bear.