Kyuka Lilymjok: A Writer of Great talent
Kyuka is the author of The Death of Eternity, The Butcher’s wife, Bivan’s House, Sieged, Hope in Anarchy, The Village Tradesman, The Lord Mammon, The Heart of Jacob, the Lone Piper and the Birds’ Case and A Journey of Hell to Heaven among other fictional works.
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The Death of Eternity, The Butcher’s Wife, Bivan’s House, Sieged, Hope in Anarchy, The Village Tradesman, The Lord Mammon, The Heart of Jacob, The Lone Piper and the Bird’s Case and A Journey of Hell to Heaven among other fictional works.
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Kyuka Lilymjok is a writer of great talent. He is the author of The Death of Eternity, The Butcher’s Wife, Bivan’s House, Sieged, Hope in Anarchy, The Village Tradesman, The Lord Mammon, The Heart of Jacob, The Lone Piper and the Birds’ Case and A Journey of Hell to Heaven among other fictional works. As a professor of law, he is author of Law and Practice of Equity and Trust, Environmental Protection Law and Practice, Theory and Practice of International Economic Law, and Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: Institutions, Issues, Law and Policy. Kyuka’s novels and novellas are a journey and a party of wits and refined humor. Writing on serious social issues, he writes on these issues in such a comic satirical way that makes his novels and novellas tragicomedies of sort. His choice of themes for his fictional works and his handling of his chosen themes always produce moving good and great works of art that entertain the heart as they engage the mind. There is pace and economy of language in his works as there is depth and density. Writing on African issues, there is always something fresh and exotic in his literary brew that seems to come from the cellar of African gods.Reader Reviews
A Literary Appraisal of Kyuka Lilymjok’s Hope in Anarchy: Tracing the Early Style and Voice of an Author
Department of English
Benue State University, Makurdi
Using critical realism, Maria Ajima in this paper shows how Kyuka Lilymjok reflects in a graphic manner the classical tension and conflict between the rich and poor in his novel Hope in Anarchy. The review shows how this tension and conflict in the novel turns into a naked and cruel dance of shame and
Maria Ajima
An Analysis of Kyuka Lilymjok’s The Mad Professor of Zwigwi
Department of English
Benue State University, Makurdi
In this paper, Tayol Raphael dwells on the ambivalence of Prof. Philjez mental condition. Prof. Philjez the central character of this novel in his appearance and occasional bizarre utterances seems mad. However, his sound ideas and reasoning spell sanity. Tayol using the stream of consciousness technique dwells on themes like morality, talent, ambition, capitalism, poverty, God, religion, death, time, courage, suicide, war, chance, et cetera – themes Prof. Philjez dwelled on in a quaint, random and shocking manner.
Tayol Raphael
The Absurd in New Nigerian Writing: A Reading of The Butcher’s Wife by Kyuka Lilymjok
Department of English, Benue State University, Makurdi
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This review by Carmel Igba-Luga subjects The Butcher’s Wife to an absurdist reading that exposes the meaninglessness of the actions of Nnali the central character of the novel and the meaninglessness and pointlessness of life as a whole.
Carmel A. Igba-Luga
Critical Realism in Kyuka Lilymjok’s The Heart of Jacob
Department of English,
Benue State University, Makurdi
Chris K. Ukande reviewing Kyuka Lilymjok’s The Heart of Jacob uses critical realism to show how the opportunistic and greedy character of Jacob who takes advantage of others’ misfortunes to feast on them is in most of us.