Author Archives: Roving Heights

Excerpts

TRIO: Change is not Welcome Here

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17
Oct

The Grapevine, Friday, 24th May 2021. THE PARAMOUNT PRINCE OF IKAIN IS BACK! At about 2 am this morning, a sleek, custom-made royal blue Lincoln Navigator sped into Omarville, the capital of the Sovereign Kingdom of Ikain, and made its way to the palace. With its tinted windows, cryptic number plates, and noiseless engine complementing […]

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Excerpts

Saints in Media by Toyosi Etim-Effiong

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19
Sep

To call yourself a saint is not arrogance, it is agreement with God. Imposter syndrome whispers to you—“You’re not good enough,” but sainthood declares, “Christ in me is enough.” So, who is a Saint in Media? It is the journalist who writes truth with integrity because Christ is in him. It is the producer who […]

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Book Reviews

Review of The Parlour Wife by Foluso Agbaje

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17
Mar

Like Parlour dogs that stay restricted in their owners’ home and are easy to handle, parlourwives are married for their youth, naivety and beauty by randy old men. This story explores a few years in the life of a young adult girl who was forced into an arranged marriage to saveherself and her family. Kehinde’s […]

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Book Recs, Book Reviews

‘This Motherless Land’ is a Bumpy, Angry but Rewarding Train Ride Back to 1970s Nigeria and England.

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This Motherless Land
02
Jan

Nikki May’s sophomore novel, This Motherless Land, is a bumpy, angry, but rewarding train ride back to 1970s Nigeria and England.   The book opens with a warm, family-show-like snapshot of the Onyenuga family, complete with petty sibling squabbles between Funke and her brother Femi—a dynamic that beautifully brings the coming-of-age theme to life. It’s a […]

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Book Reviews

Reiew of These Letters End In Tears

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13
Nov

Musih Tedji’s debut “These Letters End In Tears” was an emotional, heart-gutting read that left me completely shattered and in tears afterwards. Focused on the life of Bessem, a young Economics professor who found love in college and lost it just as abruptly as it began, this author uses a rare epistolary style to describe […]

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Greener Pasture by Muneer Yaqub

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22
Oct

How do you confront the moment of realization when you find yourself deeply entrenched in asituation, like discovering you’ve worn your shirt inside out all day? This thought lingeredthroughout my undergraduate experience. Fresh out of secondary school, I applied to the university with dreams of studying nursing, fueledby my passion for caring for others. But […]

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Guest Post

The Superstitions Behind the Housemaid Culture in African Societies

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30
Jun

In an article in The History Press titled, Women and Domestic Service in Victorian Society, the researcher Kate Clarke wrote, “In 1891 it was estimated that, country-wide…one in three women between the ages of fifteen and twenty were in domestic service; kitchen maids and maids-of-all work sometimes referred to as ‘slaveys.” She was referring to […]

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Interviews

The Housebroken Women: In Conversation with An King.

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08
Apr

An King is a young Nigerian author, making a debut with her self published book; TheHousebroken women. From a very young age, she had been passionate about creatingstories, often causing her to live in her head. She has a deep love for thriller/mystery books witha touch of drama influenced by the everyday lives of the […]

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