Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Fruit of Pain, A Novel Author: Mabel Adinya Ade Publisher: Sevhage Publishers Makurdi Year: 2021 Pages: Viii + 95 ISBN: 978-978-58437-6-7 All stories, are stories about life. Mabel Adinya’s Fruit of Pain, is even more so. It looks at, though through fiction at the travails and challenges that faces women inContinue reading “The Life in the Pain of Living and Motherhood”
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Looking Back to Look Forward: A Public Historian Revives Historical Interest in Abinsi and Reclaims the Awanu-Jukun Heritage in the Lower Benue Valley
Terhemba Wuam Book Title:The Jukun of Abinsi: A Socio-Political History Author: Joshua Antinyi Asemanya Publisher: Aboki Publishers, Makurdi Year: 2018 Pages: 264 The history of several colonial towns in Nigeria resonate with the question of what might have been, has history not taken a different course or direction in the lives of such cities. Calabar,Continue reading “Looking Back to Look Forward: A Public Historian Revives Historical Interest in Abinsi and Reclaims the Awanu-Jukun Heritage in the Lower Benue Valley”
In Their Own Image: The Military and Reorganisation of the National Polity
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Democratic Institutions and Nigerian Military Regimes,1966-1999 Author: Margaret Aladi Shaibu Publisher: Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna Year: 2018 Pages: 439 The military have been a dominant feature in the post-colonial history of Nigeria. Dr. Margaret Aladi Shaibu’s work Democratic Institutions and Nigerian Military Regimes, 1966-1999 published by the Nigerian Defence Academy inContinue reading “In Their Own Image: The Military and Reorganisation of the National Polity”
Raising the Poetic Dust, Umar Abubakar Sidi’s, The Poet of Dust
Ismael Bala Book Title: The Poet of Dust Author: Umar Abubakar Sidi Publisher: Lagos: Konyashamsrumi Year: 2019 Pages: 69 I The question is still being asked about why people are not enamoured with poetry anymore, and why they do not give a hoot about its supposed literary and cultural importance. Over the years, many poetsContinue reading “Raising the Poetic Dust, Umar Abubakar Sidi’s, The Poet of Dust”
The Nikyob of Kaninkon Chiefdom: One of Nigeria’s Invisible Ethnic Group and Their Paramount Ruler
Helen Musa Book Title: A Life of Service: From the Civil Service to Paramount Ruler of Kaninkon ChiefdomAuthor: Tanko TetePublishers: Aboki Publishers, MakurdiYear: 2019ISBN: 978-978-8546-03-0Pages: 315 The book is an autobiography that chronicles the life of His Royal Highness Tanko Tete the Sarkin Kaninkon (Tum Nikyob) and the history of his people the Nikyob ofContinue reading “The Nikyob of Kaninkon Chiefdom: One of Nigeria’s Invisible Ethnic Group and Their Paramount Ruler”
Community Policing Imperative in Nigeria
Kamar Hamza Security challenges around the globe have scaled up the engagement of scholars, writers, policymakers and practitioners in the security sector to theorise and tinker with ideas on how to combat and eventually prevent occurrence of security breach in the society. Abraham Nabhon Thomas book, Community Policing and National Security in Nigeria: Perspectives andContinue reading “Community Policing Imperative in Nigeria”
To Deviate a Beam or Invert an Image: Salihu Mahe’s World from a Glass Prism
Ismael Bala Book Title: How to View the World from a Glass Prism Author: Salihu Mahe Publisher: Abuja: Authorpedia Publishers, 2020 Pages: 53 Twenty Years or so ago one would be hard pressed to pick out a poet writing in English in Northern Nigeria from a line up, even with a gun pressed to one’sContinue reading “To Deviate a Beam or Invert an Image: Salihu Mahe’s World from a Glass Prism”
Notable Poetry Collections of 2019: An Omnibus Review
Ismael Bala Ebi Yeibo, While Masks (Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2019, pp. 125) Yusuf M. Adamu, Places:A Poetic Geaography (Kano: Admu Joji, 2018, pp. 12) Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Mixed legacies (Ibadan:University Press,2019,pp. 83) Patrick Oguejiofor, Don’t Call it Genocide Yet!(Abuja: Mazariyya Books, 2019, pp. 106) Joe Ushie, Yawns and Belches (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2018, pp. 89) EbiContinue reading “Notable Poetry Collections of 2019: An Omnibus Review”
Impact of Wars and Integration of Groups in the Middle Benue Valley
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Wars and Changing Patterns of Inter-Group Relations in the Middle Benue Valley of Nigeria c.1300-1900 Author: Bem Japhet Audu Publishers: NDA Publishers, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna Pages: 170 War is given a bad rap. Often justifiably so because of the human suffering that comes with it. Yet the three things –Continue reading “Impact of Wars and Integration of Groups in the Middle Benue Valley”
University Governance Challenges in Nigeria
Okpeh O. Okpeh, Jr., FHSN Book Title: Public University Governance in Nigeria: A Festschrift Professor Msugh Moses Kember Editors: Chris S. Orngu and Terhemba Wuam Publishers: Cosmopolitan Book Series Pages: 319 ISBN: 978-978-978-157-0 Universities are centers of research, teaching and learning established for the sole purpose of generating relevant knowledge required for the development ofContinue reading “University Governance Challenges in Nigeria”
NIGERIA REVIEW OF BOOKS 