4 months ago
Book Review | I want to go home forever
In times like these it is easy to forget how de-sensitized we all have become to violence, particularly violence done to Black and Brown bodies. Books like “I Want to …
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4 years ago
Book Review: The Path Which Shapes Us by Lazola Pambo
The Path Which Shapes Us is a novel by South African novelist Lazola Pambo. The book follows the life of the protagonist, Clifford Malothi, an orphaned boy that was adopted …
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6 years ago
Book Review: Minaret
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Published: 2005
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages: 288
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6 years ago
Book Review: The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta
‘Always remember that you are mine,’ says Aku-nna’s father before he dies. But as Aku-nna approaches womanhood her ambitious uncle makes plans to marry her off for a …
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7 years ago
A good novel shouldn’t have a point: A review of Teju Cole’s Open City
Although Open City is his first novel, Teju Cole is no stranger to the world. Undoubtedly a multitalented artist, he regularly contributes to The New Yorker and the …
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7 years ago
When a book feels too familiar: A review of Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
It’s 9 p.m. on a chilly fall evening. You are knackered from your four-hour shift at the library circulation desk and all you want to do is watch …
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