Sixty-Two Piercing Annotations to Nigeria’s Restless Story

By Friday Inalegwu Ejilogo In the long arc of a poet’s life, each collection becomes not merely a new book but a fresh annotation to the unfolding manuscript of existence. Footnotes For A Native Land, appearing recently in 2026, marks Emman Usman Shehu’s fifth major poetry collection—a milestone that invites us to pause and trace […]