“How might we make music in a burning house? Love in a Time of Nightmares shows us how. Lacerating and lyrical, these songs are fragments out of a still raging storm whose other name is Nigeria. Tenderness knits despair and hope together in this daring collection, and the product is the ambiguity that must be the stance of all those who dare sing in the midst of an inferno.” —Ike Okonta, Department of Politics, University of Oxford, UK “Nduka Otiono’s excellent book begins a dialogue between Canadian poetics and the rich resources of Nigerian poetry…. Africa has much to teach us, and here is an ideal place to learn…. Come and listen. You will be enchanted.” —Bert Almon, poet and Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada “Only an accomplished poet can write these remarkable poems, haunting and enchanting songs in smooth-flowing lines. Love in a Time of Nightmares is definitely mature and exhilarating…a memorable collection. You can’t help but be mesmerized by these poems.” —Tanure Ojaide, poet and Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA