Verses By Beordoon

Rotimi Fawole borrows from the Roman Empire and the popular Television series, Game of Thrones, in the making of this deliciously hilarious and educative pot of literary soup.  The Chronicles of Chill: The Book of Gambrach is a humorous record of events in Jirriah, a fictional territory under the directionless rule of a listless (and largely mad) King Gambrach who rose to power after defeating the incumbent, King Gejoshaphat, in an election. After their initial euphoria, the people quickly find Gambrach…

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Buried beneath the Baobab Tree is as gripping a book as it is heart-rending. Written in an unconventional style for a novel, it tells a story of war, death, and grief, of friendship and betrayal, aspirations and shattered dreams. Salamatu is a young girl dealing with typical growing girl issues and chasing her dreams of education and love when her idyllic life is suddenly flipped upside down. Men of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, storm her village in Borno…

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  Zahrah the Windseeker follows the journey of Zahrah, born as something of an oddity with ‘dada’ hair, as she struggles with the alienation that comes with being different. It details her inner conflict at the beginning, her physical, emotional and mental development as she progressed, and her eventual acceptance of whom and what she really is at maturity – a windseeker. Written in the mold of Lewis Carol’s ‘Alice in Wonder’ but with the African in mind and a…

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Sometimes, adversity is the catalyst that brings about unity in a group. On Black Sisters’ Street is the eye-opening tale of four African women from different backgrounds who are brought together by a common purpose – the pursuit of a better life. Sisi, Ama, Efe, and Joyce all travel to Europe via the same channel, with the same lofty dreams, but pushed by differing circumstances. It takes the death of Sisi for the rest to realize how interwoven their journeys…

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