Wilfred Terlumun UjiAuthor: Norbert HwakaaBook Title: The Untold Story of Kuje YumPublisher: Old Press, AbujaISBN: 978-978-59342-7-9Year: 2023Pages: 124IntroductionThe book is focused on a collection of folk songs composed by Kuje Yum, a Masev folk singer, who made indelible foot prints on the oral poetry of the Tiv nation.Kuje Yum like his contemporaries in Tiv SocietyContinue reading “The Life and Times of Kuje Yum: Tiv Folklorist and Cultural Icon”
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Shay’nyam
Author: Kuni TyessiBook Title: If Only we Knew: A Collection of Short StoriesPublisher: Aboki Publishers Kaduna, 2022ISBN: 978-978-8546-9Word Count: 9,925She had explained herself repeatedly to different police personnel, but the case seemed to have just started. She was escorted from office to office, continuously reiterating herself. It was exhaustive, but she had no choice. SheContinue reading “Shay’nyam”
Going Beyond Oil and the Urgency of Economic Diversification in Nigeria
Sunday Moses Adebayo Aloko Book Title: Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy, Author: Zainab UsmanPublisher: ZED Book, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2022Pages: xiii+292 pagesISBN: 978-1-7869-9394-6 Zainab Usman’s book, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy was published in 2022 by Zed Books Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ItContinue reading “Going Beyond Oil and the Urgency of Economic Diversification in Nigeria”
NYSC and the Nigerian Experience
Terhemba Wuam The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is perhaps the most hallowed and respected of Nigeria’s institutions. Established in 1973it has come to represent a rite of passage of for all graduates under the age of 30. Service apart from the reluctance expressed by the very first batch of the NYSC, when it wasContinue reading “NYSC and the Nigerian Experience“
Change and Transformation: Women and Youth Agency in the Fourth Republic
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Culture, Democracy and Security in Nigeria Editors: Ado Muhammed Yahuza and Audee T. Giwa Publisher: Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan. Year: 2020 Pages: 89 pages ISBN: 978-978-918-725-6 Insecurity is now an inescapable part of the lexicon when discussing the state of human affairs in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The exhilaration with which NigeriansContinue reading “Change and Transformation: Women and Youth Agency in the Fourth Republic”
Ike Ekweremadu’s Lamentations
Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa Book Tittle: Who Will Love My Country: Ideas for Building the Nigeria of Our Dreams Author: Ike Ekweremadu Publisher: Goldline and Jacobs Publishing, New Jersey, USA, 2016 Pages: 158 ISBN: 978-193-859-820-3 This book comprises of fourteen chapters and is authored by a fifth term Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria andContinue reading “Ike Ekweremadu’s Lamentations”
Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Publisher: Tim Duggan Books, 2017 ISBN: Ebook, 9780804190121 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century was a response to Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 elections that made him the 45th president of the United States of America. AccordingContinue reading “Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria”
Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna
Book Title: Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000 Authors: Inuwa K. Bahago and Nehemiah I. Madugu Publishers: Kaduma Bahago Evangelistic Foundation, Kaduna Year: 2020 Pages: xiv+ 142 ISBN: 978-978-986-529-1 Terhemba Wuam The art of biography as the study of man and his times gains credence in this volume on Rev. Kaduma Bahago. In Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000,Continue reading “Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna”
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”
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”
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