+2348084481576‬ | musahaliru30@gmail.com | X: @Haliru Ali Musa | Facebook: Haliru Ali Musa (khidir)
The Long View, a weekly column published every Monday in Naira Stories Magazine, uses art and literature as windows into the truth beneath our shared realities. Each introspective essay weaves through novels, films, cultural moments, and creative works to examine how personal experience intersects with universal themes. It is cultural commentary rooted in artistic tradition, questioning who determines meaning while seeking the deeper currents that connect individual stories to larger human patterns.
Engineer and writer Haliru Ali Musa combines technical precision with poetic sensitivity in narratives exploring African identity and culture. Based in Lagos, the Katsina State native is an award-winning writer, a social commentator, and a 2024 Nigerian Academy of Letters alumnus whose story ‘The Pregnant Ghost’ won the Alexander Nderitu Prize. His work has appeared in leading African literary publications, including Naira Stories Magazine.
I read novels the way some people listen to rap, half-focused, following the rhythm until something stops me cold. A
I once spent an afternoon at Iyanoba, skimming through the collection of those people who sell books on the ground.
The orange cat arrived on the same Wednesday as Aliyu Yakubu’s Abandoned. Every morning, at seven, it sits by my
Last Sunday evening, I closed Nikki May’s This Motherless Land with the peculiar feeling that I had just witnessed something
In the bustling Kurmi Market of Kano, beneath colourful umbrellas shielding books from the Harmattan sun, Hauwa fingers through a
I have been thinking about wells lately. Not the kind you draw water from, but the other kind — the