Venue: Debonairs Bookstore, Sabo, Yaba Date: Sat,28th of July,2012 Time: 2-5pm The 14th Edition of Book N Gauge, Lagos City's lifestyle book event will be featuring Parresia's Emmanuel Iduma, author of the novel, Farad, just out. Also featured will be Myne Whitman, author of romance novels, Heart to Mend...
Parresia author, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, interviews British-Sierra Leonean author Aminatta Forna. Abubakar is the author of "The Whispering Trees" [2012]. British-Sierra Leonean writer, Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory of Love and The Devil that Danced on the Water was in Lagos recently where Sunday Trust...
First published on www.7venhillsmedia.wordpress.com Immediately I finished reading Emmanuel Iduma’s novel “Farad, I felt the need to tell others about it. Not as a professional reviewer, which I am not, but as a reader pleased with a book bought with hard-earned Naira. I write with a...
First published in Sunday Sun Newspaper, 8th July 2012.Like someone rightly said, nothing succeeds like an event whose time has come. Imagine writing this book a decade before or after now? The former would qualify as a prophetic experiment and would have created much tension...
Richard Ali’s “City of Memories”: A Review By Mazi Chiagozie Nwonwu First published in www.7venhillsmedia.wordpress.com With City of Memories, Richard Ali attempts to give traction to the largely inexplicable ethnic and religious violence in the North of Nigeria. He traces histories and traditions, and succeeds largely in showing the...
By Richard Ali First published on www.gclf.blogspot.com How did you write your book? In the weeks since my debut novel, City of Memories, was published by Black Palms I’ve been asked this by several younger and unpublished friends. Usually, this has nothing to do with the book itself which...
Courage is a Novel: A review of Richard Ali’s City of Memories by Emmanuel Iduma First published in Sunday Trust Newspaper, Nigeria. Sunday, 27 May 2012 05:00 Do not forgive me, I am nuanced. For to write a short review of a friend/publisher/editor/colleague’s book is to traffic in subjective subtleties;...
Parrésia Publishers Limited with its two imprints, Parrésia Books and BlackPalms Books, enters the Nigerian market at a crucial time when publishing is at best a risky investment. Only two serious publishing firms have been set up since the return of democracy in 1999 and...
