“Without any iota of doubt Rasaq is a revelation, and so his poetic spirit and artistic presence. He’s a revolutionary necessity at the time the utopian dream of Nigeria has been consistently challenged by the long presence of acute leadership failure and less regard for the laws, security and dignity of human life. For this we need to give him the credit for archiving major stories and incidents we may tend to forget due to the deluge of other looming calamities.
It should be said that in Nigeria, calamities and displeasure do not have a long epochal presence. They come and leave without any strong documentary. Having a poetic documentation of memories of incidents from Chibok to Bun-yadi in his major debut appearance No Home In This Land, Rasaq has not only succeeded in strengthening the fearless voices of his mentors and literary demi gods including Tade Ipadeola and Jumoke Verissimo, he has also carved a fadeless existence for places like Yobe, Gwoza, Barma and Borno where scary words like gun and war, bomb blast and blood have been incorporated into the lives of local residents, including children…”
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