Review: ‘The River Never Returns’ By Emman Usman Shehu - Latest News
universal underpinning exploring Nigeria, Africa and the diaspora through various issues from politics to banditry to gender to migration and to racism. So on one-hand it could be likened to a mapping of emotions and interestingly the concluding poem in the collection is titled “Map”.
Several things “ bring tears to the eyes” in this collection which initially seems not to be arranged in any particular order. However a closer scrutiny shows there is some sort of cyclical movement from within the poet’s country and continent and then across the oceans and then a return to base, so to say. This is a strategy Shehu has frequently deployed in his previous collection –Questions For Big Brother, Open Sesame and Icarus Rising.
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