Every evening, your father tore a page off the Bible, steeped it in water, and chewed. Every evening, he mumbled the same two-minute prayer before eating the Word of God. He chewed gingerly, steadily, reverently. It may have dropped forewarnings before it started, this thing, but you must have missed them all. One evening, as […]
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Lagos, my friend says, is sick in both senses of the word; a city dealing with Dissociative Identity Disorder, with an emphasis on Dissociative…
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(Photo credit: Inna Lazareva) 1. Choose a place. That Limbe is a coastal city means it is literally surrounded by fish. Most people love the proximity of Down Beach, which translates into the nearness to raw material, and comes with the sight of the sea, the sound of waves hitting the shore, the tame
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Howard M-B Maximus reviews ofada rice and wonders why one finds jollof rice everywhere in Nigerian literature, but hardly any reference to ofada rice.
In the first of a series of restaurant reviews, Howard Maximus portrays the culinary twists and social turns that can transpire at Twist, a restaurant which sits atop a bank in Buea.
Howard M-B Maximus A cover has many faces. As the language a book is written in changes, so does its cover. Behold the Dreamers is no exception. Last month, we celebrated the first anniversary of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, a page-turner about family struggles, vast longings, and what it means to be an immigrant
