BOOK REVIEW: Tenants of the House
GENRE: Fiction
AUTHOR: Wale Okediran
REVIEWER: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
'To kill is a crime: to kill at the right time is politics' are some of the first words that glued one's heart to Okediran's superb novel.
The synopsis...
Depressed and pressed
A scene I found quite amusing just played out in a popular shopping mall a few days ago.
A pretty lanky lady had been on the long queue to be attended to by the cashier.
As...
Analysis of Chibuike Onu’s poem ‘A Government Driver On His Retirement’
A Government Driver On His Retirement
AUTHOR: Chibuike Kingsley Onu
REVIEWER: Mohammed Taoheed
Many years on wheelsIn faithful service to his fatherlandToday retires he homeAnd a celebration he holds
Many years has he pummeled his boozy throatIn...
RUSTIC ROMANCE: Three Mad Dogs!
“With a song, they sponged off their anguish,
To behold their collective pains,
To celebrate their gains,
Give lyrics to the tune of their lives,
Cheat the tyranny of time,
And commune with the yet unborn…”
OUMAR FAROUK, THE SONG...
FICTION: When vengeance backfires
hortly after returning from the vulcanizers meeting, Taju felt a need to visit a debt-stricken client who had refused to pay for the services rendered to him a month ago.
It was almost dusk.
That would...
POETRY: This is for you!
This is for homes broken into shards of dirges and sorrow, for families with a loss or two, for cities that have touched the face of death and know every contour on her face...
BOOK REVIEW: Cry, the Beloved Country
GENRE: Novel
AUTHOR: Alan Stewart Paton
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: South Africa
REVIEWER: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
Cry, the Beloved Country is written from the perspective of a third person omniscient narrator, who mainly stays focused on the internal world of...
A Brief Exploration of the Ego
In Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche, he lists three theoretical constructs which are propounded as a description of the activities and interactions of the mental life of a person.
The three are: the...
OPINION: Suicide and the zero Alternative
A story is told of a man who worked hard to ensure he is promoted at work. He had missed the promotion twice already but this time, he was determined to put in extra...
The Question of Choice: A Philosophical Approach
In my opinion (and this article is full of it), from the origin, humans are introduced into this world without a ‘user manual’ or a practical guide to existence.
Babies cry for attention because that...
