General

In the ghetto of Dabala rest the ruin of many underage girl-children who, under their parents’ watch suffer different forms of sexual molestation. These mishaps, perpetuated by averagely-affluent men and women, are characterized by subtle coercions, decoys, and downright exploitation due to vagrancy and deprivation. Requiem exposes a putrid society in dire need of redemption, even from the hands of persons whose duty is to sanitize it. In fact, it depicts the scourge of female sexual abuse in an intense and gripping narrative. Will Member set to move to Makurdi to live with a female pastor and her family suffer the same fate?

Omenuko by Pita Nwana, was published after winning an all-Africa literary contest in indigenous African languages organized by the International Institute of African Languages and Culture. Pita Nwana was the first Igbo to publish fiction in the Igbo language. The first edition was in the Protestant Orthography, but it was soon issued in the other orthographies. This edition was translated by France W. Pritchett.

Cascades is a collection of poems by Okey Uzoechina. He attempts to capture some of his flowing feelings expressed in writing. It covers two decades of expressing emotions in writing from his university days in Enugu, Nigeria, through his work travels to many parts of Africa, Europe and America, to his current abode in Abuja, Nigeria. The collection of 20 poems for 20 years embraces a rainbow of emotions like joy, love, hope, beauty, wonder, faith and soul searching.