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Essay & Review

Of Roads and Crossroads by Tade Ipadeola

Title: If Only the Road Could Talk Author: Niyi Osundare Publisher: Africa World Press Number of pages: 126 Year of publication: 2017 Category: Poetry   Old, never aged, Once golden apple of an Empire’s eye, London never sleeps (but sometimes snores) Still methodically English, with some brown now In the watermark of its Union Jack…  – London (p 106) Of all African poets writing in English today, without a doubt Niyi Osundare…

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Essay & Review

Africans and Cosmopolitanism: A Review of Route 234 by Femi Morgan

Title: Route 234 Editor: Pelu Awofeso Publisher: Homestead Media Number of pages: 212 Year of publication: 2016 Category: Travel/Non-fiction Travel writing is a curation of notes by a traveller whose sense of motion is animated. The travel writer is conscious of the trajectories of many feet, and his too, that make the world cosmopolitan. And he is enlivened by the many experiences and people whom he encounters. Travellers the world over have…

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