o sm B e ta to Apocalypse SUPPLEMENT • ISSUE SIX • 2001 Editorial Director Olakunle Tejuoso Managing Editor Ololade Bamidele Editors Akin Adesokan Sola Olorunyomi Copy Editor Queen Abiodun Graphics Consultant :elix Omorogbe Art Direction Wole Lagunju Word Processing Theresa Onwuachi Marketing/Advertising Director :idelis Akpom Jnr. World wide web address http://www.glendora-eculture.com Web maintenance Netsoft Systems, Lagos. Glendora Books Supplement (ISSUE Nos. 6 2001) is published quarterly by Glendora International (Nigeria) Limited. Tel/Fax: Lagos 2692762 e/mail: 105271.ll@compuserve.com CORRESPONDENCE Africa: Glendora Review, 168, Awolowo Road, R O. Box 50914, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria Tel: 01-2692762. INTERNATIONAL Glendora Review 16, Skelley Road, London El5 4BA, UK. DISTRIBUTION North America B. De Boer, 113 East Central st, Nutley, NJ 071 10. Africa/Europe Contact: Toyin Tejuoso, Glendora, R O. Box 50914, Falomo, Lagos, Nigeria. Phone/Fax: 2692762. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying or otherwise without the prior written, consent of the publisher. Send all editorial correspondence and subscription enquiries to addresses above. For more about subscription and advertising information, call/fax Lagos 686870, 2692762 or e/mail: 105271.ll@compuserve.com COVER ILLUSTRATION: Wole Lagunju Printed by: Rainbow Cards Ltd. 1 Niyi Osun dare r 3 Ebenezer Obadare All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter By Stewart Brown. In Search of Africa By Manthia Diawara 7 Wale Adebanwi 11 Angela Nwosu 1 5 Ogaga Ifowodo This House Has Fallen: Midnight In Higeria By Karl Maier The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart By Alice Walker The Prisoner's Wife By Asha Bandele Dreams At work and other Poems A Feast Of Return* Under African Skies London Letter and other Poems By Odia Ofeimun 1 8 Aderemi Raji-Oyelade Juneteenth By Ralph Ellison 21 Reuben Abati 23 Chux Okei Ohai 26 Nina Mba 28 Wole Ogundele 33 Sola Olorunyomi 35 Ololade Bamidele Ibadan Mesiogo By Dapo Adelugba, Remi Roji, Omowunmi Segun and Bankole Olayebi (eds.) Invisible Chapters By Maik Nwosu Eye of Fire: Emeka Anyaoku By Phyllis Johnson The World Is An Egg: Poems By Niyi Osundare African Rhythm: A Horthern Ewe Perspective By Kofi Agawu Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon By Michael Veal Remaking Africa: Challenges of the list Century By Olusegun Oladipo