Ex-footballer Ian Wright has received an OBE and broadcasters Ken Bruce and Davina McCall have been made MBEs in the King’s first Birthday Honours list. Former hostage Terry Waite is given a knighthood, alongside novelists Ben Okri, and Martin Amis,…
A magical story of love, hate, redemption and forgiveness: A review of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s “When We Were Fireflies” — Olukorede S Yishau
The sophomore novel of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, the author of the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature-winning Season of Crimson Blossoms, is otherworldly. Like his first novel, this new one, When We Were Fireflies, has an opening that can compete as…
‘The spider king’s daughter’: Seeking meaning beyond the echoes of Ben Okri -Toni Kan
Chibundu Onuzo’s debut was a literary event. Just 19 she had written a novel before 20 and she was an undergrad at an elite British institution; King’s College. What was there not to like and envy. Her book, The Spider…