Nduka Otiono and Odoh Diego Okenyodo (eds) “Every now and again, there appears an anthology of creative writing that does not gather together the canonical pieces already well known to the public, but boldy sets out to bring to visibility a body of writing that has not received the attention…
Nduka Otiono & E.C. Osondu (eds) “Subject of the greatest controversy in Nigerian Literature” – The News magazine “We-Men is clearly a worthwhile read” – Toyin Adewale, Founding Co-Ordinator, Women Writers of Nigeria, WRITA “We-Men is a work of significance…provides a veritable platform for a more engaging discussion of the…
“Nduka Otiono’s excellent book begins a dialogue between Canadian poetics and the rich resources of Nigerian poetry. His book is a call to North American poets, who should open our ears and then offer our response to this generous engagement with our poetic forms. Africa has much to teach us,…
In Voices in the Rainbow, the poet-protagonist sees himself as the “griot of a threatened tradition.” The poems in this collection are therefore a heroic effort to rescue the ancestral oral tradition of bards and raconteurs from obsolescence by reinventing its tropes and techniques within the tradition of the written word.…
“With this first collection of short stories, Nduka Otiono takes us on an impressive, multi-textual journey of resourcefulness and creativity that combines the best of the oral and scribal in Nigeria literary culture: traditional storytelling strategies and conventional narrative forms are overlaced with a fragmentary, postmodern reflexivity; the voice propels…
