by abubakaradam | Dec 27, 2016 | Book Talk, Thoughts on Things
2016 is the year Nigeria’s “irreverent generation” have taken on literary giants. Wole Soyinka has been infuriated and heckled by social media critics over his vow to tear up his American Green Card should Donald Trump with the US elections. Chinua Achebe has had his...
by abubakaradam | Dec 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
EE Sule, also known in the academic circles as Sule Emmanuel Egya is the award winning author of Sterile Sky, (Heinemann African Writers Series, 2012) his debut novel which centres around a boy Murtala and his family as the city of Kano descends into religious...
by abubakaradam | Oct 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Brave teen Fatima Bukar recounts her seven-month ordeal in the hands of Boko Haram, who used persuasion and threats to get her to marry one of them. Fatima Bukar. (All photos by Fati Abubakar) It was September, 2016. Just before dawn gunshots thundered on the...
by abubakaradam | Oct 25, 2016 | Travels, Uncategorized
Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2011, thousands of women and children have been abducted by the terror group. Many of the women recovered from the forests and villages in which they were forcefully held face challenges being accepted into their communities....
by abubakaradam | Oct 25, 2016 | Travels, Uncategorized
Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2011, thousands of women and children have been abducted by the terror group. Many of the women recovered from the forests and villages in which they were forcefully held face challenges being accepted into their communities....
