Nigeria, July 16 -- Beautiful art is bold; its pushers and planners are unindoctrinated

and unapologetic. In critical and tough issues, they are marinated.



They challenge the reader to broach difficult subjects, to see

before now, to perceive beyond here, past a colonial map or tree.



They push the booklover to rethink the history of relocations,

that we are all human beings, despite our tags and destinations.



They teach us never to hand next generations legacies of division

and discord sown by seeds of colonialism, parochialism and oblivion.



Not to use pirated and prejudiced indices and lenses to determine

who we are, how wide our borders stretch. For dear Africa is mine!



No African son and daughter is a foreigne...