Category: Book Review
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We Should All Read ‘The Power of Women’ by Dr Denis Mukwege
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who specialises in treating injuries from rape, and an awe-inspiring advocate of women’s rights. The Power of Women is a harrowing account of his professional and personal journey of witnessing the heinous crimes against women, and their strength and resilience through all their traumatic experiences. […]
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Review: ‘Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?’ by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Yinka is thirty-one and single. She must find a husband – a prayer that sits on the lips of her mother and her aunties. Things in the dating world aren’t going too well for her; an engaged ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, her aunt’s set-up and a match from an online dating site. With her […]
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How ‘Welcome to Lagos’ by Chibundu Onuzo welcomed me to Lagos
Neighbour, how many books set in Nigeria have you read? I’ve lost count, and I’ve enjoyed almost all of them; Things Fall Apart, Americanah, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Freshwater, Under the Udala Tree, The Famished Road, What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, Arrow of God…okay, let me stop […]
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