Aubade at Night or Serenade in the Morning - Ayeyemi, Taofeek
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"aubade at night or serenade in the morning" investigates the etymology of Nigeria's notoriety for systemic corruption and insecurity. It narrates how the nation is scarred by episodes of terrorist attacks leaving a number of families broken forever; revealing its major actors as corrupt, inept leaders and the Boko Haram insurgent groups. It x-rays how lawlessness brings the nation to its knee and confronts the persecution of citizens by the Police who should protect them. Furthermore, while underscoring the Nigerianness of the people, the collection goes deeply into the demystification of…mehr

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"aubade at night or serenade in the morning" investigates the etymology of Nigeria's notoriety for systemic corruption and insecurity. It narrates how the nation is scarred by episodes of terrorist attacks leaving a number of families broken forever; revealing its major actors as corrupt, inept leaders and the Boko Haram insurgent groups. It x-rays how lawlessness brings the nation to its knee and confronts the persecution of citizens by the Police who should protect them. Furthermore, while underscoring the Nigerianness of the people, the collection goes deeply into the demystification of fate and grief, narrates the plights of boy child amidst the burden placed upon them and how they are abandoned while placing focus on the girl child. In the end, it shares a crumb of the author's personal life vis-a-vis family, love, heartbreak and hope, thereby generally exploring the theme of identity of him as a verisimilitude of any other child from this country. This collection is unique for its experimentation of styles and forms (avant-garde) and its usage of natural and mundane images to probe the themes of patriotism and identity. The duality of effects of every picturesque showcases intensity of experience through velocity of language and emotional ethos.
Autorenporträt
Taofeek Ayeyemi fondly called Aswagaawy is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and author of the chapbook Tongueless Secrets (Ethel Press, 2021) and a collection "aubade at night or serenade in the morning" (Flowersong Press, TBD 2021). His works have appeared or forthcoming in CV2, Lucent Dreaming, Ethel-zine, Up-the-Staircase Quarterly, ARTmosterrific, Banyan Review, Presence, tinywords, the QuillS and elsewhere. He won the 2021 Loft Books Flash Fiction Contest, 2018 PoeticWednesday Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention Prizes in 2020 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2020 Akita International Haiku Contest, 2020 Fujisan Taisho International Tanka Contest and 2nd Prize in 2016 Christopher Okigbo Poetry Prize. He is @Aswagaawy on Facebook and Twitter. When he's not in the court arguing, in the chambers drafting, in the bedchamber with his cats poeticizing or meditating as a Sufi, he'll be somewhere in the world talking.