The Adventures of Cosmic Yoruba
& Her Flying Machines too
I was really excited about the release of His Treasure, the first book in Kiru Taye’s historical romance series “Men of Valour, so much that I squeed. Sadly, I did not get to read and enjoy His Treasure because my life was in chaos around the time the book was released in December 2011. As calm…
H/T Black Looks I’d like to present Diriye Osman’s ‘The Kitchen Sessions: Earthling’. I was so pleased to come across this reading of a story that features…wait for it…African Muslim lesbians. AFRICAN! MUSLIM! LESBIANS! I did not realise how long I’ve been waiting for fiction with African lesbians born into Muslim families until I came…
Spoilers abound! Simply put, Pao is political history of Jamaica told through the eyes and life of ‘Uncle’ Pao Yang of Kingston’s Chinatown. Don’t expect anything more or less when reading Pao, I say this because from reading the blurb it is easy to believe that the book focuses on Pao’s relationship with Gloria and…
Uche Obieri is a author who writes speculative fiction. Uche’s works are largely influenced by Nigeria in some way, mostly in names. Her short story Six and Fifty-Four is up for sale at the Amazon Kindle store for only £0.86. Six and Fifty-Four is a “light yet satisfying sci-fi romance about Six, an android assassin…
Oh noes, you don’t say there are more African authors writing historical romance set in all corners of the continent. Be still my beating heart! Kiru Taye is an author, she writes African historical romance. She recently revealed the cover of her upcoming debut book His Treasure (due for release in December 2011). His Treasure…
–ephemere, is taking pre-orders for a calligraphy poembook: Kandila will be a little book rendered completely, from the title page to the very last leaf, in calligraphy. It will feature three of my (rather long!) bilingual love poems to my country, the Philippines, rendered in different calligraphic styles, as well as a few pages of…
I wrote this post last year immediately after I finished reading the book. I sat on it because I wanted to reread the book. I’m halfway through reading New Dawn a second time and, yeah, my opinion is pretty much the same. While reading keep in mind that I enter sarcasm mode quite often in…
It is no secret that I am a huge fan of movies and series set in the fictional past. I’d rather watch historical dramas than those set in the modern times. I love all sorts of dramas set in different periods and I tend not to discriminate as I enjoy European historical movies alongside wuxia…
Sometime last month, I read Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward Mills and while I admit that I did not read the book’s blurb in its entirety before buying the book, I was nevertheless eager to read a book that was not only set in an African country during the colonial period but that also had…
Welcome to my WordPress blog! My first post on this blog is one that I started writing weeks ago and is a book review! ‘My Father’s Wives’ is a book with a very misleading blurb. I bought the book expecting one thing and I got another. However, it is possible that I did not read…