IN a real sense, we should not be talking of the South or the South-West putting up a response to the deadly invasion it has witnessed in recent times, because the country, Nigeria, is the umbrella ...

Here the muse is a trader in the Kantin Kwari market, “haggling for the price / of a metaphor,” her wrapper “tucked firm against the Harmattan’s tongue.” She demands not facile beauty but “the scent ...