The Arts-Muse Fair

Book : Dazzling Mirage Author : Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare Publisher : Words Rhymes & Rhythm Publishers Ltd [WRR.NG] Date of release: September 2017. “The author succeeds in producing a very realistic tale of loving and faith in an emotively rational style that only a trained and investigative mind can manage. I suspect that in composing her narrative, Egbokhare took time to understudy the challenging world of a carrier of sickle cell; but instead of reducing the medical information to mere data, the author produces a very moving tale that challenges received myths about SS in a hard, superstitious, indifferent, and calculating environment.”  — REMI RAJI, Professor of African Literatures & Creative Writing, University of Ibadan The author of Dazzling Mirage holds a Ph.D in Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan where she teaches writing skills, advertising message development among  other courses. In 2014, Dazzling Mirage was adapted in

Title: I Wrote This for You. Author: Samira Haruna Sanusi. Page Count: 94. Publisher: Word, Rhyme and Rhythm, Abuja. Due for release on: August 19, 2017.       Reviewer: Nana Sule I wrote this for you starts as little droplets of beautifully woven words before gradually building to a rain of encouragement. Every now and then, alternating between the first person narrative and the second person, one sees pain through the eyes of the writer, and feels the torture of all that she has been through. Written as a collection of poems and quotes, the first and most noticeable strength is the clever wordplay that survived till the last page. The poems, seem unknowingly divided into four parts, although it is unclear if this was the Writers’ original intention or if by some literary miracle, the poems aligned in poetry heaven. The first set of poems talked about the acceptance of pain, in all its ramifications, emphasizing the need to let pain break and heal one.

Amab Books & Publishing has announced the release of Umm Zakiyyah’s book, His Other Wife , first published in January 2016 in the United States of America by Al-Walaa Publications. Released on May 30, 2017, Amab Books secured the international publishing rights to publish the book and make it available to the expansive readership in all the English-speaking countries of West Africa. His Other Wife is a fictional story of the socio-cultural and inter-religious importance of love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. In the book, we encounter Umm Zakiyyah opening the oft-locked door, looking honestly at the long-term personal struggles of people in relationships suffering emotional, spiritual and sexual abuses. In a statement by Nur-d-din Temitayo Busari, Amab Books & Publishing enjoins readers to visit Amab website  or (@amabbooks) or call +234 8129333031 to make orders and discuss distributorship across We