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Book Review : The Couple Next Door

Author: Shari Lapena Pages: 336 Rating: 4.0/5 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Language: English Main Characters: Anne Conti, Marco Conti, Detective Rasbach, Cynthia, Richard...

Jess Mwangi in Reviews
Feb 21 - 3 min read

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The Tiwa Savage Conundrum

The Tiwa Savage Conundrum Nigeria is a country where almost everyone has steady “Knacks” and yet no one really does it. Funny how this spirit...

Drey Yung in Reviews
Oct 26 - 1 min read

Book review: Kane and Abel

Book review Kane and Abel by Jeffery archer.Kane and Abel is a famous novel trilogy by the British author Jeffery archer. I don’t know what...

Dauda anike in Reviews
Oct 8 - 2 min read

I Need To See The Movie Expeditiously😤😤Book Review: Tell Me Your Dreams

Author: Sidney Sheldon Pages: 384 Rating: 4.8/5 Genre: Crime Mystery, Fiction Language: English Main Characters: Ashley Patterson, Alette Peters, Toni Prescott Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers...

Jess Mwangi in Reviews
Sep 20 - 2 min read

TEDxBodija 2021: A Review of Fortitude & Resilience

TEDxBodija 2021: Fortitude and Resilience — an independently organized event. 29th May, 2021. Wole Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan. It has now been two months...

Covenant Odedele in Reviews
Jul 31 - 4 min read

Everything Wrong With Everything Everything

Author: Nicola Yoon Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Romance Number of pages: 310 pages Rating: 4.0/5 Protagonist: Madeline Madeline is a 17year old girl (she turns...

Jess Mwangi in Reviews
Jun 24 - 4 min read

Book Review : The Day After Tomorrow

Welcome to my first book review. I finished this one at around April. I hope you enjoy it. I think I’ve dropped some major spoilers,...

Jess Mwangi in Reviews
Jun 11 - 2 min read

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE. by: Jeff Keller The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering...

Lucia Osei Asamoah in Reviews
Apr 8 - 2 min read

Why The Ending to on My Block’s Third Season Is Perfect

Disclaimer: Telling you why chapter twenty-eight of On My Block is perfect means telling you how it ends. So spoilers ahead..Duh. Now that that warning...

Ayomitide Aina in Reviews
Feb 27 - 3 min read

4 horror movies that I have never quite recovered from

For some, horror movies are an enjoyable pastime. Some avid watchers are able to eat their popcorn in peace through the most terrifying scenes and...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Feb 23 - 1 min read

4 songs to listen to before Normani’s debut album

Normani Kordei Hamilton is a force to be reckoned with. As a performer she is fierce and as a singer has an unmatchable tone. While...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Feb 14 - 1 min read

MOVIE REVIEW: THE NEIGHBORS WINDOW

If you are looking for an incredibly touching and inspiring film to watch, then the neighbors’ window is the ultimate short-film to watch! SYNOPSIS The...

Nisa Ndlovu in Reviews
Feb 9 - 2 min read

Why Being Nigerian is a satirical masterpiece

Last week, in a piece about electric cars, I explored the world of satire with the help of a friend. While I was new to...

Ayomitide Aina in Reviews
Jan 31 - 2 min read

4 music mashups that shouldn’t work but somehow do

Twitter has been abuzz watching the rise of a young producer by the name of amorphous. His speciality? Mashing up songs that you would never...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 30 - 2 min read

6 reasons why you should drop everything and watch Superstore

In the world of comedy, a show like ‘Superstore’ reigns supreme. The show is based on a stereotypical American Superstore such as Walmart or Target....

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 29 - 2 min read

MOVIE REVIEW: BLACK GIRL (1966)

Have you ever wondered who made the first African film and where it was made? The term African cinema is a phenomenon, which derived after...

Nisa Ndlovu in Reviews
Jan 29 - 2 min read

Movie: Sugar Rush Genre: Comedy, Crime Director: Kayode KasumWriters: Bunmi Ajakaiye, Jade OsiberuRunning Time: 120 minutesLanguage:English, Yoruba, IgboRelease Date: 25 December, 2019 After an impressive...

Christiana Ibiwoye in Reviews
Jan 26 - 2 min read

The Golden Songs and Albums that Made My 2020 BOMB (and why)!

Hey yo my lovers! What’s good?! 2020 was a hell of a year right?Whooo! There were unprecedented happenings that brought feelings of difficulty, isolation and...

Yaytee Loves💞 in Reviews
Jan 21 - 8 min read

Is The Smart Money Tribe Worth Your Time?

Disclaimer: The Smart Money Tribe may be about finances, but it’s still a novel. So for me to write an honest review, there will be...

Ayomitide Aina in Reviews
Jan 18 - 4 min read

MOVIE REVIEW: THE GOOD LIE

The Good Lie is a 2014 drama written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The movie was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, and South...

Nisa Ndlovu in Reviews
Jan 18 - 2 min read

‘Soul’ is not really a kids movie

The movie ‘Soul’ has made quite a mark on this year. With its gorgeous, detailed animation it upholds the movie magic we’ve come to expect...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 17 - 3 min read

WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE? |INSIGHTS FROM Cal Newport’s Deepwork

Is there really a singular factor that moves to the top of the pyramid when it comes to considering all our existence? I would love...

Havillah Ogutu in Reviews
Jan 17 - 6 min read

5 Stevie Wonder songs that everyone should listen to

Stevie Wonder is inarguably one of the best musicians of all time. His penchant for melodies that hit you right in the soul makes listening...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 17 - 2 min read

Why you should consider reading Sapiens

At the beginning of 2020, I promised myself I would read 24 books in an attempt to rekindle my reading habit. So sometime in September,...

Ayomitide Aina in Reviews
Jan 16 - 2 min read

Movie review: The Pursuit of Happyness

The pursuit of happyness is an autobiographical drama movie, released in 2006. It tells the story of Chris Gardener (Will Smith), a simple man trying...

Farah Ahmed in Reviews
Jan 15 - 3 min read

The Movie Citation

So yesterday I watched ‘Citation’ finally, and to be honest I am not disappointed. Since the release of the movie, some people took to their...

Christiana Ibiwoye in Reviews
Jan 14 - 2 min read

Movie review: The Green Mile

The Stephen King movie adaptation for his book “the green mile” was based on a true story. An African-American boy at the age of 14,...

Farah Ahmed in Reviews
Jan 11 - 2 min read

Book Review: All The Bright Places

All the bright places. The New York best-seller and Jennifer Niven’s first Young adult novel, All the Bright Places, was published in 2015. It...

Farah Ahmed in Reviews
Jan 9 - 3 min read

MOVIE REVIEW: SEW THE WINTER TO MY SKIN

Sew the winter to my skin, is local drama not be missed. Inspired by the true story of John Kepe, a black South African rebel...

Nisa Ndlovu in Reviews
Jan 9 - 2 min read

Jazmine Sullivan is back and better than ever!

To say that I love Jazmine Sullivan’s music would be an understatement. It’s her sultry tone, a lower register that feels like it reaches the...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 8 - 2 min read

‘Fatman’ is the dark Christmas movie that you never thought you needed to watch

I’m not sure what I expected to find when I walked into a movie theatre to watch a movie called ‘Fatman’ on a lazy Nairobi...

Karen Wandia in Reviews
Jan 8 - 3 min read

My Unpopular Opinion of the Defining Decade

My Unpopular Opinion of the Defining Decade I would say I had fairly high hopes when I picked up the book, The Defining Decade. In...

Ayomitide Aina in Reviews
Jan 6 - 3 min read

You don’t Even know me.(Be nice)

You call it Music , and I call it my therapist because it’s my safe kind of high.When you to listen to a particular song...

Grace Quarcoo in Reviews
Jan 5 - 2 min read

Movie review: Lady BIrd

Greta Gerwig’s debut as a director-writer has gained her positive critics and appreciation in her semi auto-biography. It has a mix of coming-of-age and...

Farah Ahmed in Reviews
Jan 5 - 3 min read

My 2020 Books in Review!

If you can’t get a mentor, get a book.- Aminat Awogun 2020 Mid-January 2020, I read my first book for the year- Moment of Lift...

Aminat Awogun in Reviews
Dec 22 - 4 min read

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On Coleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us”: When Love Turns Violent

There’s one reason I don’t read romance novels. . . . S.E.X! Don’t get me wrong: I think consensual sex can be a beautiful thing....

Davida Opara in Reviews
Nov 29 - 2 min read

REVIEW OF WOMEN AND FROGS BY BISI ADJAPON

“Are your legs the highway a man passes through on his destination to marry someone else? They should be the destination, not the passage, sansanyi,...

Akintunde in Reviews
Nov 2 - 3 min read

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Genre : Fantasy fiction Author: Sarah J. Maas eISBN: 978-1-61963-445-9 BOOK DESCRIPTION Feyre lives with her poor father and two sisters in a lonely...

Oluwayinka Odufote in Reviews
Oct 2 - 2 min read

Book Review: A Small Silence

This intensely evocative debut novel by Nigerian poet, Jumoke Verissimo, recounts the story of two protagonists; Prof, an activist and retired university professor, who...

Foyin Ejilola in Reviews
Sep 17 - 2 min read

BOOK REVIEW: FRESHWATER BY AKWAEKE EMEZI

Freshwater is a 256 paged semi-autobiography released in December 2018 and written by the Igbo-Tamil writer, Akwaeke Emezi. The book which bears the ISBN 978-0-8021-2899-7...

Gimbiya Galadima in Reviews
Aug 15 - 2 min read

BOOK REVIEW:THE UNHONEYMOONERS

The Unhoneymooners is a contemporary romance novel written by the duo Christina Lauren( Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings) in the year 2019. The humorous novel...

Gimbiya Galadima in Reviews
Aug 10 - 3 min read