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Novel: City of Memories | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. Novel: City of Memories. City of Memories by Richard Ali. 1 Richard Ali: City of Memories. Mr Ali turns his hands to fiction with a muscular story that wrestles with the Nigerian question through the agency of a love affair across fault lines. Chuma Nwokolo Jnr. Publisher, African Writing Journal. Author, The Ghost. Amazon.co.uk HERE. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Blog at WordPress&...
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On Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kwani? 2013) | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. On Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kwani? July 19, 2015. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor ( Esther Ashieng Onyango). I’m delighted to have finally read Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s debut novel, Dust. Finally, because it took all of two years to get it. It was released in Nairobi, by Kwani? For this is a writer who knows, and one who knows everything. A novel like this, side by side with the Ugandan novel Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, makes my argument for a shared Afric...
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Three Kernels from President Buhari: Adding Structure to Dysfunctional Space | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. Three Kernels from President Buhari: Adding Structure to Dysfunctional Space. May 29, 2015. Mohammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria. President #Buhari has served some of the most evocative, tweet-size statements of purpose in the last weeks. 8220;If Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.”. 8220;The past is prologue.”. 8220;I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.”. We are at the start of a new way of administering #Nigeria. 10 YELL...
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Poetry | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance. Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae. Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve seen the pale child. On the biscuit line, faith the name of its every step. Lift of veteran paddle hitting the surface, causing ripples. Then up again I am the waiting to strike your hearth again. I’m in that waiting to be loved, a god no longer, a mere child. Sequestered from your breasts and womb. Enter your ...
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On Urban Spaces | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. June 13, 2015. There are two things you need to be careful with in urban spaces. One, you must be careful about letting your life intersect with the lives of too many other people. This is for self preservation. Secondly, you must try to know people only on the surface–do not try to know them truly. This also is for self preservation. But we all fail, eventually, sadly. Three Kernels from President Buhari: Adding Structure to Dysfunctional Space. Enter your em...
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richardalijos | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. All posts by richardalijos. Lawyer, Poet, Author of the novel City of Memories. October 27, 2016. Out of data, you go to the Nigeri guy’s shop a street away and ask for Etisalat N1000. A kid there, about six, exclaims, “Dubu daya? 8221; You smile and ask him if it’s too much or too little but now he’s shy. As you collect your two N500 recharge cards, you hear him telling his older companion he has N2000 saved with his mother. On the Nigerian Lack of Language.
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Inaugural Speech: President Mohammadu Buhari, Federal Republic of Nigeria. | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. Inaugural Speech: President Mohammadu Buhari, Federal Republic of Nigeria. May 29, 2015. President Mohammadu Buhari, #Nigeria. I thank all of you. Having just a few minutes ago sworn on the Holy Book, I intend to keep my oath and serve as President to all Nigerians. I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody. At home we face enormous challenges. Insecurity, pervasive corruption, the hitherto unending and seemingly impossible fuel and power shortages are ...
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Current Crusade | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. Where I share a crusade for which I feel strongly, for any reason at all and even for no reason. Thank you! 8212;—————————————————————————————————————————————————-. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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On Goodbye #Kampala and Being Equatorial | Richard Ali's Blog
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Richard Ali's Blog. Novel: City of Memories. On Goodbye #Kampala and Being Equatorial. June 21, 2015. Today is my last day in Uganda and with all major engagements dealt with, I decided to go see more of the country outside of Kampala. At the Equator Restaurant. We arrived Mpigi and it promptly started raining. Luckily it was just a notch above a drizzle and was done by the time we polished off lunch at the Equator Restaurant spaghetti and chicken for me, chips and sausage for small madam. Uganda is a lo...
