Kraft Books

In the Preface to this collection, the poet says "Season is another name for year in the same way that wind incarnates geography, turbulence or even quietude. Such contradiction is the joy of poetry,...

This is the private story of a public servant; the inner life and voice of the poet expressed in the public sphere; a Nigerian-American cross-cultural and migratory love story, that reveals much...

Rome Aboh's poetry unmistakably enwraps the condition of the politically and socially cannibalised segment of his society; and the beauty of the verse radiates from his facility with language as the...

In this study the author argues that African poetry is a response to the socio-cultural and political realities of the African condition shaped, as it were, by the specificities of African...

Art, Society and Identity is an important and timely intervention in the study of postcolonial African literature given, not only its profound reading of select fictional, poetic and dramatic texts,...

In this highly challenging, provocative and sometimes, disturbing philosophical work, the author argues that reality is a function of value while value in turn projects three distinct properties:...

Before They Came recreates the world lived by Africans before the onset of the white colonialists into the Africa. It tells a localized story of an orphaned boy, Ugagwu, who overcame daunting...

Chris Anyokwu's new creative offerings are snapshots of a the quotidian reality in the playwrights homeland, Nigeria, where polygamy and its associated evils, crass materialism and its classless...

This particular volume of the boyhood works, in two parts, reveals the early philosophical musing of Udenta O. Udenta, even as a secondary school boy, leading him to make apt pronouncements such as:...

Death and the King?s Grey Hair and Other Plays is a collection of three plays, ?Death and the King?s Grey Hair,? ?Truce with the Devil,? and ?Fringe Benefits,? which are all experimental plays from...

This work takes in two collections of poetry. The poems of Delta Blues protests against the environmental degradation of the Niger Delta, and the devastation unleashed upon local populations,...

Democratic Transformation and Social Change in Nigeria nuances the organic connectedness of the intellectual conscience and critical social practice of an individual to the wider context of the...

In this witty but serious collection, the poet looks askance at injustices and pains of the present and recent past. In the title poem and others, he asks, 'how the hell/Chicken generals figured they...

In Fate and Faith Tunde Adeniran the polemicist celebrated nature, people and the omnipotence of god. There are striking images of a society in need of restoration. Adeniran writes with passion and...

Tayo Olafioye is a poet, novelist and scholar, active in Nigeria and the united States. He has won prizes for his volumes of poetry, which include Sorrows of a Town Crier (1988) and Bush Girl Comes...

Musa runs from death but not far enough from its canny sting. His heart of stone is so cold that his suicide mission radar stringently points at a large gathering of his family and friends. Kaka Patu...

Heroism and Critical Consciousness in African Literature which was originally published in 1994 as Ideological Sanction and Social Action in African Literature is a stimulating discourse on the...

Illumination. Essays on Democracy, Culture, Peace and Social Development in Nigeria is a fascinating collection of essays on the democratic process, peace practice, cultural consciousness and social...

Iredi War was the winner of The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2014. The playwright introduces the notion of 'folk script' with its special stamp. The use of the oral literature genre allows for the...

An epic poetic narrative exploring the author's dual experiences of culture and unravelling his Yoruba and English intellectual inheritances.Author: Tayo OlafioyePublisher: Kraft BooksPublication...

In King of the Jungle, the bouts of ethno-religious violence in Jos are fused with the heartbreaking story of two brothers who go through life unaware of each other?s existence. Carefully crafted...

When Major General Jeff Guna got the note, his first feeling was that it was an enemy's bait. A cryptic note: 'Meet me at 9pm...come with a flower, if your love is not dead. Come with a gun if you...

Marsh Boy and other Poems is a welcome contribution to the tradition of poetry devoted to the revolutionary struggles of the people of the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The poems celebrate...

Winner, ANA Drama Prize, 2014, Maybe Tomorrow is a drama that conveys the searing anger of a new generation in Nigeria. Soji Cole is a member of the faculty of arts of the University of Ibadan...

A potpourri of witted versification of a social crusader, Naked Truth reveals the kowtowing status of a nation?s sociopolitical and economic stability. It is a collection aimed at social...

Obama-Mentum is a collection of poems that respond to the emergence in 2008 of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. From Obama?s declaration at the Old Capitol in Springfield to...

This volume, in three parts, of the Boyhood Works Series of Udenta O. Udenta contains the poetic ruminations of a highly artistic youngster already profoundly familiar with the classics of world...

This study explores the nationalist imagination, artistic philosophy and the overtly political dimension of Remi Raji's poetry. It is an attempt to construct a sustained critical discourse on Raji's...

This 5th volume in the Boyhood Works Series contains a thriller Novella and a collection of short stories, Retrospective Vision: Cultural Interactions, provides a counterpoint to the adrenalin-...

This final and sixth volume of Udenta O. Udenta's boyhood writings offers a collection of creative pieces ranging from a poetic drama steeped in Graeco-Roman mythical lore and short stories recalling...