Literary Zone

Book Review: Salute to the remains of a peasant

PICTURES OF SHAME PORTRAIT OF A WEST AFRICAN HOLOCAUST A review of Oumar Farouk Sesay’s Salute to the Remains of a Peasant, a collection of poems (...)

| May 2007 | 1326 views

New Novel Preserves Fading African Culture

Before the footmen of the modern world sliced through the thick jungles of Africa, it flourished unspoiled. However, since imperialism has stripped much of (...)

| April 2007 | 833 views

Poetry---Books to Glow

By Abayomi Charles Roberts Books to Glow Waiting for doctor’s diagnosis Made me quite anxious, nervous Fearing SARS or Tuberculosis (...)

| April 2007 | 636 views

Edmonton Society honours Salone Poet

By Our Correspondent Abayomi Charles Roberts stayed at the University of Alberta hospital for several days in 2005. It was on November 11, Remembrance (...)

| March 2007 | 850 views

Blood Diamond Malaise

By Roland Bankole Marke Blood Diamond Malaise Wild (...)

| January 2007 | 1077 views

Poetry---Bra Breeze.

Bra Breeze. By Mohamed Boye Jallo Jamboria. Look at you! Images without foundation, Born naked, to die naked. Leaping, grubbing, howling (...)

| December 2006 | 1015 views

Poetry-----Bamba Kayaka

Bamba Kayaka By Abayomi, Charles, Punchy Roberts. There’s a street in Salone; A street named Pademba Road, Where those who dare are barred (...)

| October 2006 | 1204 views

Book Review: The Wind Within: A Novel

Review of The Wind Within: A Novel by Rachel Cecilia Jillo Massaquoi (New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2004; 189 pages, $14.95. By Lansana Gberie. The (...)

| September 2006 | 834 views

African Union: AU is for Gold

By Abayomi Charles Roberts,Edmonton, Canada Go, Africa, Go! Go for gold AU is for gold; for yours is of gold. That about which has much been told (...)

| September 2006 | 717 views

Poetry: Rhyme of the Time

Rhyme of the Time By Abayomi Charles Roberts (Punchy), Edmonton, Canada Pot slows the melt after Twin Tower crumble, Perceptions, suspicions, more (...)

| September 2006 | 797 views

Poetry----Bye Bye-oh Abayomi, Bye Bye

By Gbakanda Kamara in Norway Tem don rich for go; nartin nor dae for ever Tem don rich for ask yu sef, watin yu don do for wi Tem don rich for (...)

| July 2006 | 1014 views