3 Poems│Edwin Olu Bestman
Unbeknownst Some years ago,Dad kissed the house goodbye,Left me searching for the name of every line in my palm,Broken like an eagle whose wings have been shot,And my eyes drowning…More
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The Exegesis of Her Body│Ajise Vincent│Poem
in her you will come to seethe genesis of voices embedded intwigs of shades. you will come to seequagmires, large like hitler’s armageddon,being drowned under the auspice of tears.you will…More
To a Little Boy from Lagos│Ibrahim Williams│Poem
For Lagosians in recess POETRY walks on the streets in Lagos. It is in the incredible dynamic of life which enacts, like some incandescent power, the moment of each living…More
Jesus Is the Sweetest Name│Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi│Short story
The choristers chorus the hallelujah song by Handel Messiah, so euphoniously. Sitting at the edge of a long, brown pew in church, your gaze lingers on him. He is the…More
Darkness & Despair│Onuchukwu Joseph│Short story
1.So here you are, seated on the poorly cemented floor with your back against the itchy wall in this small room that shouldn’t even be for the living. Wet in…More
3 Poems│Akin-Ademola Emmanuel
Six Months of a Millennia //it’s just six months since cancer gripped my father’s lungs to the hospital bed & i keep dreaming of a bird who once drifted to…More
3 Poems│Philip Chijioke Abonyi
How to Discover Life in a Dead Body when you first heard a thing breaksit was your heart,the world tendered a seat on your head and every breathof the air…More
3 Poems│Agumanu Kennedy
Souls on Rampage Commotion cracks human abodesOver unprecedented toll of deathsRunning and dying our experienceOn this untimely ravaging deathsNations panic in pains and perilsAllowing humanity dread its existenceVerily, verily, it…More
Anhedonia│John Dele
nothing good ever comes easyisn’t it only human then,to distrust this breathing and this is how the world stops spinninga girl, 23, asks the morning for peace takes a peek…More
3 Poems│Haneefah Bello
Wearing a Body In inheriting clothes from my mother,I have begun to wear her body;In wearing her body,I have begun to unravel parts of me thatcarry questions I cannot form…More