Editor: Amatoritsero Ede
Volume 1, Issue 1
May 2007
In this section, "Hidden Texts," we introduce you to some of modern Africa's most interesting, yet unheralded works, from some of Africa's most promising authors.

Roots in the SkyA Tangled Tale
Deji Toye

  • When the manuscript of Roots in the Sky (Roots) won the Prose Prize in the annual Association of Nigerian Authors in 1996, poetry – not prose, especially of the longer version – was the most important genre in the opus of emerging Nigerian writers of that period. By the time of its publishing some eight years later, prose was already in the ascendancy...
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Equal Among Peers
Twilight TrilogyUzor Maxim Uzoatu

  • Chiedu Ezeanah has for over a decade and more of not publishing a debut collection earned the singular distinction in Nigeria of being accepted as a bona fide poet ahead of others with many volumes of published verses. To say that his first collection was eagerly awaited by the literati, from poets and novelists to literary journalists and newspaper columnists, is an understatement...
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God of PoetryMaximum Trouble!
Toni Kan

  • Uzor Maxim Uzoatu is a rare breed in Nigerian literature. Poet, journalist, short story writer, and critic, he is famous and infamous all at once as a bohemian scourge of the establishment and patron saint of young poets...
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