The Markas : an anthology of literary works on Boko Haram /
This anthology is an outcome of literary writers' reaction to the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-eastern part of Nigeria. Lives therein have not only been extensively disrupted by the group's violent tactics and the mind-numbing levels of physical destruction and thousands of deaths, b...
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Lagos [Nigeria] :
Malthouse Press Limited,
2019
[Oxford] : African Books Collective |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Editor's Note
- Editors
- Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction. The Boko Phenomenon: challenges for the Nigerian State and Society
- References and Works Cited
- PART I
- POETRY
- Nereus Tadi Yerima
- Sister, the sky is grey again
- News
- Peace will Return
- Folu Agoi
- Tears for Chibok
- Tactical Manoeuvre
- Part of a Whole
- Khalid Imam
- I Salute the Bravest of Storms
- Maiduguri
- In the Nest of Tears
- Benjamin Armstrong Zugu
- Maiduguri
- God Deliver Us...
- Razinat T. Mohammed
- What will I say?
- I Returned
- My Arrest
- Uvie Giwewhegbe
- Haram
- Idris Musa Okpanachi
- The Ashes
- Children of Travellers
- Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi
- Cries from the Forest (For Chibok girls)
- We are not safe
- Ode to Leah Sharibu
- Adama Y. Balla Yerima
- Standstill...
- Terrorist
- Abubakar A. Othman
- The Legacy Gardens of Borno
- Trembling Night
- The Date Fruits of MARKAS
- Abdulsalam El-Mubashir
- Girl Bomber
- For the Kidnapped Chibok Girls
- Abubakar M. Joda
- Explosion in Arewa
- Anita Jacob
- In Sambisa
- Mujtaba S. Abubakar
- Don't Worry
- Ofoko Ogechi
- Can't You for a Moment Rest, Mosquito Boys?
- Iquo Dianaabasi Eke
- To Survive the War
- The Stacato Was No Firework
- Centenary Condolences
- Love wears many faces
- Su'ur Eddie Vershima Agema
- The Waiter of the Skull
- Nightmares Raised on the Fringes
- Tolani Salawu
- When Is The End?
- Adama H. Idrisu
- A Day of Tears
- Safiya Ismaila Yero
- My Northeast Dream
- Rachel Msendoo Kaase
- Beasts were Babies
- George Chukwu
- Dear Faimata
- Inertia
- Linda Jummai Mustafa
- The Last Meal
- Daniel Yohanna
- I Want to Learn
- I Wish to See You Again
- Where is Our Patriot?
- Jack Vincent
- Yerwa
- Darkness
- Tanure Ojaide
- Fortunately
- He Was One of Us, Shekau.
- Tashan Bama
- Ruth Bariki
- Boko Haram
- PART II
- THE DIALOGUE POEMS
- Hyeladzira Balami
- The Markas, Site Not Seen in Maiduguri, june 2018
- Tanure Ojaide
- Bypassing the Markas
- Abubakar A. Othman
- The Site Not Seen
- The Curator of Markas
- Razinat T. Mohammed
- The Three Musketeers
- PART III
- FICTION AND NON-FICTION
- My Daughter, My Blood
- Command and Compliance
- Home is no place to Stay
- Rite of Passage
- Flying Over the Crises
- They Call Me Helen
- Dashed Hopes (for the Nyanya blast)
- The Long and Empty Road
- Back cover.
