The morality of man is distinguished by a thin line between humanity and cruelty. Once this line is crossed, we are met with an even greater vice than the loss of that man. In a matter of days, its effect weighs on a lot of lives. The effect of cruelty and negligence always weave in…
During a conversation, Michael Imossan, while highlighting the relevancy of heightened language in poetry, noted that sometimes you read a prose work and feel a high sense of poetry therein. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s work conveys this sense. While reading through his book, Season of Crimson Blossoms, I was nostalgic for his collection of short stories,…
Dreams and Assorted Nightmares by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a collection of intertwined short stories set in an unknown land in Nigeria—a mystical place called Zango where its inhabitants die when leaves fall from a magnificent live tree in a vast and dark forest called Kurmi. These stories explore the spaces between the earthly realm…
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