Wawa Book Review focuses on the outputs of African publishers, aiming to provide excellent commentary on books published on the continent and to give feedback to publishers,...
By Ofuonyeadi Chukwudumebi Mercy
Title: Collective Amnesia
Author: Koleka Putuma
Publisher: uHlanga Press
Number of pages: 111
Year of publication: 2017
Category: Poetry
Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry collection, Collective Amnesia, is a collection of fifty-one poems divided into three...
By Ayodele Ibiyemi
Title: Liminal
Author: Douglas Reid Skinner
Publisher: uHlanga Press
Number of pages: 77
Year of publication: 2017
Category: Poetry
Liminal is Douglas Reid Skinner’s seventh collection of poems, and the age and experience of the poet are obvious...
By Tade Ipadeola
Title: Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition
Editors: Sarala Krishnamurthy and Helen Vale
Publisher: University of Namibia Press
Number of pages: 379
Year of publication: 2018
Category: Essays
Namibia hosts pristine terrain, geologists and biologists tell us, holding vital clues from the...
By Nureni Ibrahim
Title: Can Anything Good Come Out of History?
Author: Obaro Ikime
Publisher: Bookcraft Ltd
Number of pages: 321
Year of publication: 2018
Category: Essays
Obaro Ikime, historian and retired professor of the University of Ibadan, hopes to fill...
By Ofuonyeadi Chukwudumebi Mercy
Title: Things I Will Tell My Daughter: Uncensored Truths on Love, Money and Womanhood
Author: Joan Thatiah
Number of pages: 180
Year of publication: 2016
Category: Essays
Joan Thatiah’s Things I Will Tell My Daughter,...
By Tolulope Odebunmi
Title: Tales of Mother
Author: Dupe Kuku
Publisher: Coal Media
Number of pages: 124
Year of publication: 2018
Category: Memoirs (Short Stories)
In this collection of stories and reminiscences, Ms Kuku immortalises her mother, Mrs...
By Seye Bassir
Title: How to Win Elections in Africa
Author: Chude Jideonwo with Adebola Williams
Publisher: Kamsi Farafina
Number of pages: 280
Year of publication: 2017
Category: Politics
How does one win elections in Africa? A humorous answer to this question...
By Tade Ipadeola
Title: Animist Chants and Memorials
Author: Harry Garuba
Publisher: Kraft Books Ltd
Number of pages: 79
Year of publication: 2018
Category: Poetry
‘Can we ever again shred the drapery of the word
and return to the fullness of the spell and the...
By Vuyo Mzini
Title: I Want to See the Sun Rise
Author: Sam Shakong
Publisher: Xarra Books Ltd
Number of pages: 208
Year of publication: 2019
Category: Autobiography
Fatherhood is tenuous. At the worst of times, a level of substantiating proof is required...
By Seye Bassir
Title: How to Win Elections in Africa
Author: Chude Jideonwo with Adebola Williams
Publisher: Kamsi Farafina
Number of pages: 280
Year of publication: 2017
Category: Politics
How does one win elections in Africa? A humorous answer to this question...
By Tomiwa Ilori
Title: Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid
Author: Gabeba Baderoon
Publisher: Wits University Press
Number of pages: 207
Year of publication: 2014
Category: History
The book Regarding Muslims seeks, as its fundamental objective, to theorise the history of Muslims in Cape...
