April 2015

Life of Pi: Into the Divine, the Hard Way, or: Why the Tiger Didn’t Bite

This analysis of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi examines extraordinary elements of this famed novel; it examines it as an avant-garde montage, a new fable, A tableau of the weird and fantastic—in other words, a book outside the realm of normal novelistic portrayal and exposition. In one important sense, this novel is a combination of the fictional and the factual, which can be understood as transacting...

Author(s): David Pendery

April 2015

Politics and the paradox of power in Femi Osofisan’s Many Colours Make the Thunder-King

The dominant trend in the world of politics today is a radical and spontaneous move towards a state of terrorism in a bid to show a big line between the strong and the weak nations; between the powerful and the powerless individuals in a postcolonial state, and the paradox of this action is that it gradually leads to self destruction, and a rape on human dignity and pride which the perpetrators of this act seek to...

Author(s): Adebola ADEMESO