Of violation, tears and bleak hope: A review of Kehinde Badiru’s I know Why Your Mother Cries

Foremost postcolonial Nigerian poet, Niyi Osundare, opines that “in the intricate dialectics of human living, looking back is looking forward” (The Eye of the Earth, xii). In a similar vein, leading Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, argues of human daily choices and decisions