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Q&A: poet-psychiatrist Femi Oyebode on literature, medical humanities and the mind

By Africa in Words Guest on 16 January , 2017 • ( 2 )

AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Femi Oyebode is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the current author of Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind (4th edition). His other books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry & Madness at the Theatre…. Read More ›

Broken Men Who Never Heal: A Review of Bongani Kona’s “At Your Requiem”

By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 23 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi “I rewind time to conjure you back to life.” The above words on the opening page strike a note of foreboding and thus set the tone and pace for the story. Indeed the whole tale rests on this conjuring back to life through… Read More ›