Book review by Lucy A. Armstrong Reading Ben Okri’s spectral Stars of the New Curfew is like undergoing a series of transitory hallucinations – garish and gory and without the illumination of his Booker Prize winner The Famished Road a few years later. Basking in imagery of shadows and putrid, […]
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Reviewed by Lisa Clements The Famished Road is the kind of journey that you wish to retake every few years, mimicking themes of reincarnation and echoing the “life imitating art” mantra. Its a completely immersive experience that invokes a reflective response from the reader, stirring the kind of wondrous allure […]
Good folks, I’m late bringing you May/June happenings, pardon me. In case you missed the International dialogue we organized on 31st May at Fairway Hotel, Kampala, from 5-7pm, here’s a chance to feed your eyes, at least. We had policy makers, educationalists, poets, novelists, playwrights, folklorists, cultural critics, editors, students, […]