Ancci, Author at The Republic

The Struggle Between Faith and Finality

Ancci·May 4, 2025

Feranmi Ariyo’s I Watch You Disappear articulates illness, grief, hope and faith, blending prosaic narrative with poetic depth to capture the emotional tension of a family grappling with cancer and loss. Read More...

April/May 2025 Nigeria Reading

The Language of Violence

Ancci·April 20, 2025

South African poet Qhali’s Crying in My Mother’s Tongue: Ukulila, is a searing meditation on language and identity, intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, healing, and the intimate ties of motherhood and family. Read More...

April/May 2025 Reading South Africa

7 Books That Will Make You Fall in Love with Poetry

Ancci·March 23, 2025

In our latest book recommendation, Nigerian writer, Ancci, compiles a list of seven books that will make you fall in love with poetry. The books in this recommendation are wide-ranging in their subjects and inventive in style. Read More...

February/March 2025 Read Something African Reading

Francis Kéré’s Revolutionary Slingshot Towards Architectural Sustainability

Ancci·February 21, 2025

Community engagement is central to the work of Burkinabé-German architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré, as he champions the use of local materials to build sustainable housing. Read More...

Burkina Faso February/March 2025 vol9-no1

What Is in a Yorùbá Name?

Ancci·January 26, 2025

In her second collection, Ceremony for the Nameless, Theresa Lola explores the significance of names and naming in Yorùbá culture. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria Reading

An Interpreter of Diasporic Nigerian Consciousness

Ancci·January 19, 2025

In his fourth full-length poetry collection, Autobiomythography of, Ayokunle Falomo intertwines his personal and diaspora history with Nigeria’s colonial past, anatomizing the psychological and cultural impacts of colonialism on the Nigerian identity. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria Reading

Youth, Poetry and the Nigerian Traumatic

Ancci·January 12, 2025

In a nation like Nigeria that is not so far removed from constant distress and anguish, it is only reasonable that literature, especially from young writers, serves as the analytical medium of these experiences. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria

The Faults of the Superficial

Ancci·December 18, 2024

In Terminal Maladies, Okwudili Nebeolisa’s poems of care, reminiscence, and longing are imbued with vulnerability and clarity. However, the expressive lucidity does not fully compensate for the lack of depth. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria Reading

The Boundless Figures of Adam

Ancci·December 8, 2024

In his debut poetry collection, Adam, the late Gboyega Odubanjo resists simply recounting the tragic plight of his subject, ‘Adam’, who is inspired by the unidentified Black boy whose torso was discovered in the River Thames in 2001. Read More...

December 24/January 25 Nigeria Reading

The Dramatic Procedures of Wole Soyinka

Ancci·August 25, 2024

Wole Soyinka’s legacy as a dramatist is a testament to what a proper cultural education, clear ambition, and strict commitment to craft can produce. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria vol8-no3 Wole Soyinka

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