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Where the Spirits Wait: On Kay Ugwuede’s A Substance of Things Unseen by Njoku Nonso

October 7, 2022

Title: A Substance of Things Unseen Author: Kay Ugwuede Publisher: Invisible Borders Trans-African Project Number of pages: 48 Year of publication: 2019 Category: Travel/Nonfiction Kay Ugwuede’s illuminating travel chapbook, A Substance of Things Unseen, begins in the city of Enugu, at the top of a hill. This she translates into the Igbo language as Enu ugwu: a linguistic performance garbed by seemingly measured emphasis. And this presents a sort of manual to the…

Night Crawling in Douala by Dami Ajayi

June 30, 2017

You love to contemplate a new city at night, even better if you see it from the sky, a kaleidoscopic view of dotted lights and distances. Every encounter of a new city is both a unique and a comparison of previous experiences. Douala from the sky looks like a coastal city. The aircraft pierces the clouds, you look down and what you see is the ocean, looking tame from the…

Where the Spirits Wait: On Kay Ugwuede’s A Substance of Things Unseen by Njoku Nonso

Night Crawling in Douala by Dami Ajayi

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