LITERATORS' CORNER

                                          Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy Today, we are wandering into America to find love and bring a bride to Africa! The Twain shall Meet is a story about cross cultural relationships. However, I believe the writer could have invested more into building a strong story than making cultural observations. Following a ten-year affair that led nowhere, Hester decides to dust up what is left of herself and take another chance at living life on her own terms. She decides to pursue a university degree. At university, she meets Kunle, a Nigerian student on scholarship in the United States. Both kickstart a love affair that eventually leads to marriage. The story is pretty much about Hester’s experience trying to come to terms with values and psychology of her African husband and society. The aim of the story is to address the issue of racism, especially on the ...

"Vanity" by Birago Diop: A Raditical Analysis by Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy Vanity If we tell, gently, gently All that we shall one day have to tell, Who then will hear our voices without laughter, Sad complaining voices of beggars Who indeed will hear them without laughter? If we cry roughly of our torments Ever increasing from the start of things, What eyes will watch our large mouths Shaped by the laughter of big children What eyes will watch our large mouths? What heart will listen to our clamouring? What ear to our pitiful anger Which grows in us like a tumour In the black depth of our plaintive throats? When our Dead come with their Dead When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices; Just as our ears were deaf To their cries, to their wild appeals Just as our ears were deaf To their cries, to their wild appeals Just as our ears were deaf They have left on the earth their cries, In the air, on the water, wh...