A Literary Journal Review from Tampered Press
June 23, 2026 .
African Literature, Reviews
The title itself is a plea, a lamentation, a bucket of memories tired of the cycle. A question. An anger. An act of giving up and ...
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"African works constitute books, movies,
and stories by black storytellers and
multidisciplinary artists"
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Top reviews and blog posts
January 24, 2022 .
daughterswhowalkthispath, yejidekilanko
Why did I have to carry this shame like a second skin? And every day for a month after the incident, I would usually find myself w...
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November 25, 2024 .
africanliterature
In Aaanu Ife, Ina’s adventure takes her through different shades of her recent past, even as she finds fresh resolve to heal...
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August 18, 2025 .
African Literature
At the heart of it, An Unusual Grief is about survival, not the neat, inspirational kind, but the messy kind that doesn’t always m...
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July 20, 2025 .
Essays
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and The Girl With The Louding Voice each fulfilled promises to be entertaining, lesson...
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May 21, 2025 .
africanliterature
Attah delivers, page after immersive page. I couldn’t put it down. The Hundred Wells of Salaga is the kind of book you swall...
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September 2, 2025 .
African Literature
In the end, Parlour Wife is not without merit. It’s readable, even engaging at points, but its flaws hold it back from being...
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Excerpts, interviews, releases and events
Read essays, deep critiques, and analyses of African art, dynamics, ideology, and philosophy.
June 23, 2026 .
African Literature, Reviews
The title itself is a plea, a lamentation, a bucket of memories tired of the cycle. A question. An anger. An act of giving up and ...
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June 4, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
The Parlour Wife is short and you could finish it in an afternoon. The writing is also easy to read and unpretentious.
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May 26, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review, Family Trauma
Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadil...
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May 21, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
Anthology, Excerpt, Narrative Landscape
But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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