UZO is the story of a seven-year old boy who is trying to understand the people and the world around him. He is young and sensitive, and afraid of darkness and violence. He is perplexed by mysteries beyond his …

Tigress at Full Moon is Obiwu’s second volume of poetry since Rituals of the Sun (1992). His other publications have been widely acclaimed. He won the Donatus Nwoga Prize for Literary Criticism in Poetry (2009)…

A new poetic work by one of Nigeria’s foremost contemporary poets, I Want to Dance is an extended song cycle, divided into three parts. In the song, the poetic voice undergoes a journey of experience from west …

Ken Saro-Wiwa gained international acclaim ad a human rights activist, an environmental crusader and a leader of the Ogoni, one of Nigeria’s major ethnic groups in the oil-producing Niger Delta. However his lif…

First collection by Gwen Alford, an African woman living in North America, reflecting on diverse themes such as: a personal quest for religious experience; home and identity; race and motherhood; activism; and …

‘In this new volume, I have tried to demonstrate that it is possible for the African poet to do very many things…. Part of my mission is to recognise in our African world the existence of what I call the deep…

These stories explore, and attempt to define the inexorable new world of emigration and globalisation, fragmented and uncertain, where the legacy of racism and colonialism confuses, prevails, or takes on new fo…

Recreates and globalizes an Igbo folktale about the animals’ struggle for survival and triumph in a world where the weak and poor tortoises must strive to alter their powerless condition by confronting the oppr…

The title story tells the tale of Anayo, a grief-stricken and pregnant widow, who stands accused by her jealous brother-in-law, Ezeji, of poisoning her husband. Anayo faces a dehumanizing and humiliating trial …

Shakara Dance-Hall Queen is a gripping drama about the struggle for identity, power and control, engulfing mothers and daughters in a modern city which is sharply split between the rich and the poor. How do the…

The play is set in the metaphoric state of Hungaria. Nagging questions and concerns fuel the struggles of rising militant and radicalised women and youths in a dramatised revolutionary struggle for change and c…