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Check out a few more reviews of African Roar, the anthology in which my first published short story has appeared.
http://edumablog.blogspot.com/2010/06/triumph-of-small-things.html
Have you read it? I’d really like to read is your own review of the book and the stories in it. Have you got your copy yet? What do you think?
I was going to wait until the events were over, but I might as well do it now. The results were announced on Monday.
Best Beauty Blog Bella Naija
Best Entertainment Blog: Linda Ikeji
Best Fashion or Style Blog: One Nigerian Boy
Best Food Blog: My Kitchen (Ms. O)
Best Group or Collaborative Blog: Myne Whitman Writes
Best Health, Fitness or Sports Blog: 9ja Gunners
Best Music Blog: Not Just Ok
Best New Blog: Ego Du Jour
Best News or Magazine Blog: Linda Ikeji
Best Parenting Blog: It Was So Much Easier When I Only Had One (Solomon Sydelle)
Best Personal Blog: Sting
Best Personal Development Blog: Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
Best Photography Blog: Tunji Sarumi
Best Poetry Blog: The Talkaholic (Harry)
Best Political Blog: Black Looks (Sokari Ekine)
Best Religion Blog: Light Her Lamp (Jaycee)
Best Science or Technology Blog: Loy Okezie
Best Student Blog: Leggy
Best Travel Blog: Jide Salu Diary
Best Use of Media, including Social Media: Myne Whitman Writes
Best Use of Theme: Black Looks (Sokari Ekine)
Best Writing or Book blog: Myne Whitman Writes
Most Controversial Blog: Truth Don Die
Most Humourous Blog: Nice Anon
Most Inspiring Blog: Le Dynamique Professeur
Most Intellectual Blog: Rethots
Most Unique Voice: Rethots
Nigerian Blog of the Year: Myne Whitman Writes
Much has been said about the encroaching Sahara desert on much of the other parts of the continent. What has not been much available are physical evidence of such encroachment. I have followed closely the adventures of Nigerian Chief Newton Jibunoh who had driven across the Sahara in the 60s and lately a few years ago to call attention to desertification, but I was not chanced to see the photo result of his trips. The man has driven from London to Lagos via the Sahara desert about three times now.
While flying back into the continent two weeks ago, these were the pictures I took of the desert areas of Northern Africa from Algeria until parts of Northern Nigeria.
The sad fact, according to reports of the road trip, is that much of Northern Nigeria that were still arable about a decade ago are now covered by desert sand and dunes. Much intervention is needed, and fast, before we lose even more lands to the encroaching desert – the largest in the world. Check out this satellite picture from NASA.
An affecting story: Review by Ikhide Ikheloa
Suspenseful: Review by Fredua Agyeman
Review by Zeblon Nsingo
My short story – Behind the Door – appeared as one of the eleven short stories in the premier anthology of fictions from Africa titled African Roar. That’s no news anymore, right?
What you didn’t know is that I wrote the story in about two hours after a moving experience in a local hospital. The events in the story, though fictionalized, were derived from a real life experience.
So what’s the reason for this post? I want to share with you a few of the reviews of African Roar, especially those that focused on my short story “Behind the Door.” Enjoy.
Powerful in its simlicity: Review by blogger Solomon Sydelle
Humorous without being frivolous: Review by Elinore Morris
Controlled and well-handled characters: Review by Novuyo-Rosa
The book can now be bought on Amazon, Lion Press, Barnes and Noble, and on the Kindle. Soon enough, we would be able to have them in physical bookshops all around. Until then, what are you waiting for to get an anthology of eleven powerful stories written from all across the continent?