Review: Love is Power or Something Like That

A glowing review of Igoni Barrett's latest, Love is Power or Something Like That on Africainwords:

It feels exceptionally hard in a short review to do justice to the layers of story, character and life in A. Igoni Barrett’s second collection of short stories Love is Power or Something Like That.  The characters that people these stories range across generation and gender - from 68 year old grandmother Ma Billie, living alone and facing an eye operation that will render her helpless, to 15 year old school boy Samu’ila, monetizing his passion for cybercafes in dating chat rooms.  The stories (all but one set in Nigeria) explore the complexities of human relationships and the dynamics of power that push together and pull apart intimacy between parents and children, between cousins, lovers, neighbours, and colleagues.

Igoni Barrett will be at the second edition of the Writers' Studio Workshop in Lagos.