Zango is a surreal town where men, some with erect manhoods, die when leaves fall from a life tree. Zango is both setting and spectre for ‘Dreams and Assorted Nightmares’, a collection of interconnecting short stories which explore the spaces between life and death and beyond. There’s a po..
The Incredible Dreams of Garba Dakaskus is a philosophical quest through time in search of a book with obscure origins which might contain the secrets of the alphabet and offer the reader a divine glimpse behind the veil that shrouds our plane of existence. It is the story of a narrator, whose journ..
Still harnessing the raw energy of his prodigious talent, and with poet Adonis as chief guiding spirit on form, Umar Sidi offers a must read first collection that will quickly establish his name and place in Nigerian poetry and beyond.AFAM AKEHThe images are vivid and the narrative is exciting. Thes..
When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. First, it triggers memories of past lives in which he was twice murdered—once on a train. He also meets Aziza, a woman with a complicated past of her own, who becomes key to helping him u..