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'Emeka' by Fredrick Forsyth
Emeka is the biography of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, general and leader of the nation of Biafra, written by English author, Fredrick Forsyth....

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 16, 20212 min read
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'Holloway Falls' by Neil Cross
Cross' novel (the third I’ve read, after Captive and Luther) tells the story of three characters; Jack Shepherd, originally a family man...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 15, 20211 min read
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‘Mr. In-Between’ by Neil Cross
Mr. In-Between is, so far, my least favourite book by Neil Cross. Not only was the content very dark (a lot of violence and gore) but...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 14, 20211 min read
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'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett
This novel is brilliantly written. Set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, it tells the tale of black women, who worked as maids for...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 14, 20211 min read
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'The Church Builder' by A.L. Shields
This is the first A. L. Shields book I’ve read and Oh, boy! Picture a cross (for you series-buffs) between Scandal and Prison Break, but...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 13, 20211 min read
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'Drown' by Junot DÃaz
What can one say about Junot DÃaz? Drown is the second body of work I've read by DÃaz, after This Is How You Lose Her, which, dear...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 13, 20211 min read
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'Foreign Gods Inc.' by Okey Ndibe
Foreign Gods Inc. tells the tale of Ike, an over-educated middle-aged Nigerian man who drives a taxi in New York, loathes and adores...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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Showdown by Ted Dekker
This is the second book I’ve read by Dekker, the first being Green. Showdown is set in a small mountain town, Paradise, in Colorado,...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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'Troubled Horizon & Other Stories' by Ann Esievoadje
Troubled Horizon & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Nigerian author, Ann Esievoadje, for young adult readers. The five...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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'Bridge to Haven' by Francine Rivers
This is the second book I've read written by Rivers. Rivers doesn't write a genre I would typically go out of my way to search for --...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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'False Witness' by Randy Singer
The first book by Ryan Singer I’ve read; I quite enjoyed it. It was heavy on technicalities where law and internet encryption are...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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'A Brief History of Seven Killings' by Marlon James
I’ve never read anything like this novel before; not a novel written almost entirely in patois, or a novel with such sharp and unexpected...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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'Daughters Who Walk This Path' by Yejide Kilanko
I struggled through the greater part of this book because I felt Kilanko lifted Atta's template for Everything Good Will Come. The story...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'The Education of a British-Protected Child' by Chinua Achebe
What Achebe does in this collection of 16 essays is to explain to the reader, intentionally and clearly, his views on a number of issues,...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun' by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
What I love about this book is how original it is. And already, starting a book review like this, it feels as though I will have nothing...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'Bomboy' by Yewande Omotoso
It’s a little difficult to write this review because Bomboy is like no other novel I have read. It has elements of the supernatural, the...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'Blackass' by A. Igoni Barrett
Blackass tells the tale of Furo Wariboko, a frustrated young man in the thickets of job-hunting in Nigeria’s tough labour market, who...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'Arrow of God' by Chinua Achebe
Set in colonial Nigeria (Igbo land) the novel tells the story of Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu (a god) in the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'This Is How You Lose Her' by Junot Diaz
What can I say about Junot Diaz? Diaz is a captor. This Is How You Lose Her is a collection of 9 short stories, in which he tells the...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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'Everything Good Will Come' by Sefi Atta
This novel takes a look at Nigeria's volatile political atmosphere (and the collateral damage it has incurred on family units), feminism...

Ibiene Bidiaque
Nov 10, 20211 min read
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