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Winning With Wisdom
₦3,500.00Winning with Wisdom is a collection of poems that are deep and soul lifting. In the pages of this book, you will understand the healing power of God, read about His benevolence and ask deep questions about debacles happening around the world. Victor Uwakwe outdid himself on this one.
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Contraband Bodies
Original price was: ₦8,000.00.₦6,800.00Current price is: ₦6,800.00.Contraband Bodies is a debut to be reckoned with. Jide Salawu shines
in this personal record of diaspora and a country lost to precarious politics. Mourning home, Salawu deploys gritty language, razor-edge imagery, decolonial poetics, and granular details to highlight the diverse circumstances of being a Black migrant in Africa and beyond.
Salawu meditates on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal, confronting new forms of digital kinship. He creates a unique catalogue of images that map the migratory routes from the village to the city, within continental Africa, and across different diasporic landscapes. He builds on a solid canon of migration and mobility in African poetry and brings forward a powerful, new, diasporic poetic voice.
“Contraband Bodies is a poetry of movement from place to place, a poetry of landscapes, unique experiences, memories, and an enchanting assemblage of what is most inspiring. … Salawu may be young, but his poetry stands very favourably beside the best in all African poetry.” — Tanure Ojaide, writer and distinguished professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
“For the African in Canada, exile is not just distance but a quiet undoing of self — and in Contraband Bodies, Jide Salawu gives voice to that dissonance with taut, lyrical precision, crafting poems that demand to be seen, felt, and remembered.” — Nick Makoha, poet and playwright
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Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40
₦15,000.00Unbound, an anthology of poems, gives voice to a generation that has been culturally, socially and politically underrepresented. But the poets now tell their stories, declaring: “We are here. Our norms and values are valid.”
The target audience for this anthology is anyone, regardless of geographical location and social identity or stratum, who is interested in Nigerian lives and experiences – whether at home or in the diaspora – as they manifest in elegant poetry.
Read in a chain, the poems sound like the everyday voices around us: the maturing teenager who discovers another shape to love, the father’s empathic response to the son’s youthful inquisitions, voices from war-torn places, people expressing joy and grief and angst and fortitude in a dystopic postcolonial state.
“Uncommonly conceived and carefully curated, this anthology sparkles with nuggets of poignant cogitation and splendid phrasing…” – Niyi Osundare, author of eighteen books of poetry, including The Eye of the Earth.
