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The healer is a scriptural historical fiction novel showing two families in a seemingly hopeless situation.
What happens when the only one who could help seemed to procrastinate the healing of one for another?
‘A Rose For My Country’ is a collection of 18 beautiful poems on recent and contemporary massacres, bombings and rioting in Nigeria from 1967 till date.
The collection is a wakeup call to affected and non-affected Nigerians as they may just wake up one morning and find their skin ripped off from their body.
It’s also an eye opener on how far the rate of massacres and bombings has immensely increased in Nigeria from late 1960s till date with concrete records of places, time and dates where these happened with deep metaphors describing the scenes, and how victims were victimized.
A rose for my country is a collection of poems every Nigerian should lay hands on, so as not to be left in the dark, waiting for light, sometimes we need to fit in God’s shoes to create them.
A young boy from a family of four is faced with a difficult family dilemma just as every other member of his family is. His father had decided to add to
the family in a way that posed a threat to other members of the family; and while his mum seemed helpless, the boy alongside his brother was
determined to distort his father’s intended move. The young boy had a scary dream that morning and that only compounded his worry. He suddenly realized that the situation at hand was more complex than he could have imagined it to be.
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I woke up with a start; I had a bad feeling, something had gone terribly wrong. I could hear the chirping of crickets and the hammering of rain as it hit the ground where I lay. I was in a bush, I tried to stand but my strength failed me. I finally managed to get up,...
My challenge to you this new year is that you become a better story. Observe and create. The future will read us because we all are the new books. We have been together in this community, sharing our thoughts, challenging one another. This platform believes in African...
The 2018 Bristol Short Story Prize is open for entries. The competition is open to all writers around the world whether published or unpublished, UK or non-UK based. The closing date for entries is midnight (BST) May 1st 2018. 20 stories will be shortlisted and...
WHY DID MY FOREFATHERS MISS THE SLAVE SHIP? My name is Renegade Forlorn. I am an African. In fact, I am a Nigerian. I possess qualities and potentials that are desperately needed elsewhere. How do I know this? My intuition tells me so, daily. To be honest, I can...
Anyone you would ask about book sales would tell you that one sale is determined by so many factors. Bloggers are also a huge part of book promotion these days.We all know that readers are not as enthusiastic as they have always been. Moreover, we are trying out...
This took me a while to understand and I would probably have called this “cracking the “ISBN Code.” The International Standard Book Number is not going to guarantee you book sales after you publish. Yes, you heard that right. In fact, most people don’t know why we...
She is curled up in a dark cave several leagues from her village. Sweat drips from her forehead down to her cracked feet as she looks up at the stones which she has used to seal the caves' mouth. She shudders in fear at what is about to happen. She can still hear the...
Ese Ark's Naked is a real breath of fresh air, a lens through which we get to see an enhanced view of those murky parts of our lives where we are unconsciously just ambling through, whilst also providing us with fresh feasible real life evidences and solutions. Ese...
Dear future wife, My name is Tolulope Williams, a God fearing man, loving and caring. not exactly handsome but fearfully and wonderfully made. I am really awed by your beauty and character and that’s the reason my keypad jostles, to write you this piece with a heart...
You know how they say content is king, it's true. Whoever controls content is king and they determine how it is used. The publisher used to be king because, without him, your story was not good enough. Now ebooks are here and they have just one thing to say "You...
