“Dead to the world, but no funeral No candles, no flowers & no mural Only a cremation of the world I once knew.” - E. Bassey

"This moment is a present that’s richThoughts are shippedPens experienceThe gentle caress of my fingertipsFeeling warmth within my mittsThey can’t escape my gripExcitement while writing thisBraincells handpickedTo assist in a blueprintNailing what makes senseTo a wall of successLife works outWhen firearms take a restImaginative negligenceCan lead to suspect concepts &Purpose being arres...

“Caravansary, where each book is a floor & every poem is a room.” — E. Bassey “Opening night I only hope that I’m opening right Everyday is spent coping with life The scope is on tight Winning the prize in my sights Providing lives with surprising delight The Bronx is the core Cutting ribbons at the door I jot the plot Making sure Its top notch When I’m penning Words go into metaphysical dimensions Blocking nonbelievers from meddling The producer constructs the setting A reflection of bles...

“He would document his thoughts & express his frustrations However, his words combined with his imagination Would result in an awkward manifestation...” — E. Bassey

Nigerian and African foreign policy studies are finally achieving a degrees of maturity. First published in 1987, this volume juxtaposes levels, leaders and periods, relating to national ideologies and regional issues, it also looks at cycles in political economy from the rise and decline of American industry to the petro-naira windfall.

You know those people for whom everything seems to go right? Most of us seem to know one or two, but they are by far, the minority. If we examine their lives more closely, they may turn out not to have been trouble-free as they first appear. But knowing you are among many who experience a variety of storms throughout your life does not make your trials any easier.Author Blessing E. Bassey has experienced myriad trials in her life. In her book, "Out Of The Storm...

God's mercy surpasses all sins you have ever committed, is committing and will ever commit. This book will be discussing on how the blood of Jesus has reign over our family foundation of idol worshipping, secret cult, incest, curses, evil, satanic and demonic spirit. A lot of us Christians are facing one or two spiritual battles we do not know where it's coming from or even what we are fighting, Sometimes the difficulties we face in life. The mercies of the blood of Jesus is able to delive...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Race provides an up-to-date overview of language and race from a modern global perspective. Challenging the concept of race that has been defined by global North scholarship, this book interrogates these academic conventions and encourages the reader to look beyond these narrow viewpoints of language and race.Taking a decolonizing approach, this Handbook includes contributions from academics from Africa, Latin America, Southe...

"A Below Zero Mentality in the Day of Social Ideals" is a collection of poetry in which the author seeks to offer a series of reflections and ruminations on life and contemporary society. The poems contemplate true self worth, speak to the experience of recovery and are crafted in an adult-oriented style, further augmenting the scope and tone of the work.

In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or “leopard,” which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local commun...

Nearly all human beings declare a deep affection for their significant consort. Although an entirely further crucial inquiry is what would you carry out for the individual you are devoted to? Would you risk a life or your freedom? Would you go against your own morals and ethics? Would you lie to them or withhold serious information? In this brief narrative E. Bassey explores these notions and asks the question, what do you consider For Better or For Worse"?

In a sense life is like a series of memories grouped together. Throughout our existence we all have positive and negative experiences. One day I was thinking to myself, new memories somewhat replace old ones. I highly doubt that Im the only person to ever have had this notion. You cant really remove your recollections, but merely suppress them. Therefore, the more good memories we have, the more likely theyll substitute for the bad ones. By creating better memories, the upsets and letdowns...