Books

Odega Shawa Reviews Ikenna Okeh’s One-Act Play, 'Slavery is (Not) a Choice'. Ikenna Okeh has contributed to the experience of African theater with this one-act play that finds relevance in ongoing discourses centered around the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its modern implications.

Odega Shawa reviews Ikenna Okeh's 'Yahoo! Yahoo!' in which he re-introduces us to the chaotic energy of Lagos in his novel Yahoo! Yahoo!, taking a hard and exciting look at the subculture of Internet fraud and digital and love scams that thrive in the shadowy world beneath the city’s surface. This

A collection of poems, each one chosen for its narrative, in-depth meaning and social relevance, making for a collection that delves into multiple themes of romance, humour, history, spirituality, love and activism. The poems are mostly, straight-to-the-point, fast-paced, metered and written in

This is a saga of an African tribe who lived a long time ago; a very long time before the coming of the first Europeans to their part of the world. It is a narrative verse which finely blends the elements of prose and poetry to tell a story that takes the reader over distant lands, to bear witness

A fictitious epic tale of valour told in poetry whilst maintaining every element of story-telling. In a distant past, somewhere on some fictitious isles on the coasts of Africa, four kings ruled over the four isles that make up a realm. Each king ruled supreme in turn for ten seasons, according to

An arms shipment leaves a port in Iran for Nigeria. The Department of State Security has lost track of the shipment. But there are rumours that the shipment is being held in Port-Harcourt, in a warehouse owned by some influential Lebanese businessman. The Department of State Security is concerned