Why Does God Need a Gun is a collection that listens for voices nearly erased, the screams of schoolgirls stolen in the night, the heartbeat of a daughter who refuses to renounce her faith, the refrains of prayers drowned by gunfire. In these poems, the forest becomes both prison and mirror, a place where innocence is hunted and where the question of God is turned back on those who claim to kill in His name.
Ogaga Ifowodo writes with an unflinching tenderness, weaving lament with defiance. His lines bear grief, yet glimmer with the fragile light of endurance. To read them is to walk through shadow with the faint but steady sense that memory itself is a form of rescue.
This book is not only an indictment of terror but also a hymn for the vanished and the waiting, for every child whose laughter was silenced, for every parent who still keeps a place at the table.
In a country caught between the weight of its contradictions, three lives circle one another—each grappling with what it means to belong, to endure, t..
It is Baby's birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters and the owner of a successful m..
