Dissecting the book, a professor of English and former Dean, Faculty of the Humanities, The National University of Lesotho, Chris Dunton said: “Lacerating broadsides on Nigeria’s current polity rub shoulders with strikingly frank explorations of sexuality and with anguished commentaries on the state of the national soul (as one contributor puts it: ‘So this is how we wish to live?”)…Nigeria is the powerhouse of African literature and here, in Camouflage, is the evidence.’

For Gabeba Baderoon, recipient of Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry: ‘Nigeria’s new writers, delicate and declamatory, intimate and political, immediate and global, imagine themselves into voice in this rich volume. The words are tender, agitated, beautiful, shapely—and breathed directly into the ear. Read this collection to grasp the scope and sophistication of contemporary Nigerian literature, yes, but read it firstly for its pleasures.’

Late Garuba, Nelson Mandela Fellow, WEB Dubois Centre, Harvard University, noted: ‘Every now and again, there appears an anthology of creative writing that …boldly sets out to bring to visibility a body of writing that has not received the attention it deserves…By bringing these many voices into the clamorous conversation in these pages, Otiono and Okenyodo also bring into focus the triumphs and travails of contemporary Nigerian writing at a moment of national crisis and soul searching.’

Lending her voice, Osonye Tess Onwueme, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Diversity and Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA, said: “For heightening our creative stage and pace with such compelling rhythms, these remarkable talking drums—Otiono and with the accompanying percussion of new Nigerian writers at home and abroad—not only deserve our standing applause and gratitude for this rare gift to be heard beyond our time and borders, but also a special lasting spot in the library of contemporary Nigerian/African literature.”

The contributors to the anthology inckude: Afam Akeh, Adeiza Atureta, Ekene Atusiubah, Omale Allen Abdul-jab bar, Denja Abdullahi, Al-kasim Abdulkadir, Bolaji Adekeye, Wisdom Anierobi, Toyin Alli, Maryam Ali Ali, Felix Obi Abraham’s, Pius Adesanmi, Nike Adesuyi, Chimanada Ngozi Adichie, Adolphus II Amasiatu, Amu Nnadi, Seyi Akinlolu, Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, BM Dzukogi, David Diai, Amatoritsero Ede, Victor Ehikhamenor, James Eze, Chiedu Ezeanah, Ismail Bala Garba, Helon Habila, Kamar Hamza, Ogaga lfowodo, Nengi Josef Ilagha, Bina Nengi-Ilagha, Uduma Kalu, Victoria Sylvia Kankara, Toni Kan, Akeem Lasisi, Halima Lawal, Ahmed Maiwada, Mu’azu Maiwada, Razinat T Mohammed, David Odinaka Nwamadi, Obi Nwakanma, Simeon Chibiko Nwakaudu, Uche Nduka, Angela Nwosu, Maik Nwosu, Nkechi Nwosu-Igbo, Onyebuchi Nwosu, Uchechukwu G Nwosu, Chinyere Obiobasi, Nonye Bethel Obiukwu, Sunday Enessi Ododo, Crispin Oduobok, Patrick Tagbo Oguejiofor, Tolu Gbenga Ogunlesi, Chux Okei Ohai, Sylvester Urdeen Omosun, Ernest Onuoha, Promise Okekwe, Onookome Okome, Pita Okute, Bolaji St Ramos, Lola Shoneyin, EE Sule, Benjamin Ubiri, Sumaila lsah Umaisha, Uche Peter Umez, Chika Unigwe, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, Emmanuel Onyedi Wingate, and Ike Okonta.
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