THE FISHERMEN

Oh, the importance of siblings! Have a relationship with your siblings? What type? I have sisters, and I’m lucky to have a relationship with them. Of course, we have clashes from time to time, but we have developed a warm connection. Reading the debut novel The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma let me reflect on my…

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MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER

“Ayoola summons me with these words –Korede, I killed him. I had hoped I would never hear those words again”. The first two lines of the debut novel by Oyainkan Braithwaite are direct and set the stage to this dark and gripping story.  Mine initial thought, when I read these lines were: WHAT? The second…

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