By Olalekan Adigun I commend the writer and publisher of this excellent book, The Art of Refinement, for their acute understanding of times and seasons. Aside from being the first book I have ever read on the topic of
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What is the best way to critique a literary non-fiction? It is easy for one to criticize people, processes, governments, etc. without necessarily adding value. Sometimes, such criticisms are done in bad faith. In a work of art, however,
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The shortlist for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction was released on Monday, April 29, 2019 and Oyinkan Braithwaite's satire slashfest debut novel made the list of six! In honour of the recognition she's been getting since My Sister,
Reading is not just about pleasure: books have the power to touch us profoundly, to open our eyes to injustices – and sometimes even act as a catalyst for social change. To mark World Book Day, we take a
In her book The Doctor and the Saint, Arundhati Roy discusses at some length how Gandhi’s impressions of the Africans during his two-decade-long stay as an expatriate attorney in South Africa were full of superstitions. Naturally, such an attitude was
