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The Mind of the Child: Nilanjana Haldar's Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer                                                                         --Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy Most parents often make the terrible mistake of thinking their children have no mind of their own and care less about their feelings, but this is far from the truth. Children do have a mind of their own and form opinions based on their experiences and the things they see. But should this amaze parents considering that they (parents) were also once children? You will be amazed at what you, as a parent, would discover if you pry into the mind of your child. This aspect that parents often fail to examine—the mind of the child—is the focal point of Nilanjana Haldar's Quiet Screams to the Quiet Hea...

Gbemisola Adeoti's "Ambush": A Raditical Analysis by Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy MEET THE POET Gbemisola Adeoti holds a PhD in English from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He worked as a reporter/researcher with The News Magazine, Lagos, before joining the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where he is currently a professor and director of the Institute of Cultural Studies. His areas of teaching and research include dramatic literature, literary history, literary theory and popular culture. His publications include Naked Soles , Voices Offstage , Aesthetics of Adaptation in Contemporary Nigerian Drama and Nigerian Video Film in Yoruba . He co-edited (with Bjorn Beckman) Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in African Politics and (with Femi Osofisan ) Playwriting in Nigeria Today. (culled from  http:// www.africanbookscollective.com / authors-editors / gbemisola-adeoti ) THE POEM Ambush ...