Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

Sep 15, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

According to George Orwell, the historical background of civilization is ‘largely the history of weapons’. This astute perspective appears several times throughout this collection. In ‘Jana’ and ‘Martyr of Daily Bread’, Bobi recounts the deaths of two Palestinian girls, Jana and Ra’afat Al-issa, who were both killed by Israeli soldiers in 2022. The two poems bear similar motif—violence.

Jul 28, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

In his latest essay, ‘The Critic as a Friend’, Mevre Emre substantiates the work of a critic towards literary texts: Generosity, commensurability, conversation—how calm, how dispassionate these words can seem. They do not, however, mean that the critic must be uncritical or mild-mannered. Far from it. It would be wrong to confuse generosity with approval, or commensurability with inattention.

Jul 28, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

In her latest essay, ‘The Critic as a Friend’, Merve Emre substantiates the work of a critic towards literary texts: Generosity, commensurability, conversation—how calm, how dispassionate these words can seem. They do not, however, mean that the critic must be uncritical or mild-mannered. Far from it. It would be wrong to confuse generosity with approval, or commensurability with inattention.

Jun 9, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

We lean against the windowpane of memory and stare in horror at the various sceneries of catastrophe. In ‘The Road Arrived in Ashes’, ‘I Hear Moths Eat Tears for Dinner’, and ‘Rains Falling into Oblivion’, Imossan unearths different past events and then presents them in the most plaintive and imaginatively horrid way possible.

Jul 21, 2023 | republic.com.ng | Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau |Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arówólò |Ernest Nweke |Olumide Popoola

Nigerian poet and editor-in-chief at Agbowó, Adedayo Agarau, is rooting for all African writers: ‘I think we work extra hard on our craft, and for what purpose? We are writing and building structures for other emerging collectives, and it just has to work.’