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Fourth Child, by Megan Hall

 

Fourth Child

by Megan Hall



sometimes the imagery of death obtrudes, jarringly, as when in the midst of the exquisite sensuousness of the lines of Your Red and Secret Lips, the finger of death appears:

 


Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel is also stylistically more ambitious than Ojaide’s earlier works. Gone are the over-dependence on numbered sections and the abundant use of traditional verse

Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel

by Tanure Ojaide

reviewed by Dike Okoro

Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel, by Tanure Ojaide
Angaza Africa

 


Angaza Afrika

by

Chris Spring

 

Those who come to this book with entrenched ethnographic expectations from African art will have their sop, but the collected artists have moved in quirkily distinct directions with both brilliance and individuality.

 

 

Nile Baby

by

Elleke Boehmer

Nile Baby, by Eleke Boehmer
Theatres as Witness, by Yael Farber

 

Theatre as Witness

by

Yael Farber

 

 

       
         
               
     
   
       
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