Portrait of a Black Woman Considering Her Future by Shirley Jones-Luke
She knows that she sits
on foreign soil, Americanah
when I look at her picture
she is black like me
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Book Review: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Book: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Author: Warsan Shire ‘I don’t know when love became elusive. What I know is: no one I know has it’. If this…More
Garden by Sean Stewart
Seeds are planted in barren soil
by rough tattered hands,
while dreaming of outgrowing
This foreign land
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Book Review: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress by Ogenna Ojukwu
Book: The Teacher, The Pianist and The Seamstress Author: Ogenna Ojukwu With his debut novel, Ogenna Ojukwu leads the reader through the complicated life of Onyeka; teacher and vice-principal hopeful,…More
Becoming Day by Olubunmi Familoni
BECOMING DAY “Carry your playing outside.” I’m playing with Babi, with her yellow hair. Daddy brought her for me. “I brought you Babi;” as if it was a person, the…More
(Updated!) 8 Nigerian Online Bookstores To Buy From
Buying books in Nigeria is one of the numerous problems of any Nigerian who loves to read and collect good books. For years, we’ve been stuck with really old bookshops…More
This Heart of Mine by Ezinne Ogwumah
I have too much sympathy for the world,
That I fear that I may be blinded from the fact;
The heart of man is wicked and the world breeds evil.
Just as the man who sits on the road,
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Book Review: Tomorrow Died Yesterday by Chimeka Garrick
Book: Tomorrow Died Yesterday Author: Chimeka Garrick There is always that one book sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust and all sorts of disrespect by being passed over for…More
Cotyledon by Emma Turner
Cotyledon by Emma Turner
I am half girl half boy
And it is ok to be ugly here
Skirts flapping where we walk
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