Abused by Ibrahim Williams
When you came to seek my commitment
You came wearing no sterns but smiles.
You knelt to our customs, and laid a-front my parents.
You promised me heaven, on earth,
Author: nantygreens
nantygreens
Creative works (literature, art and culture) emerging from Nigeria.
Selfie by Joseph Akinnawonu
It must have caused
God a whole lot
to form me –
a steady hand
Declaration by Michael Akuchie
I love lingering
Lingering inside a bus
Hugging the fine facade of faces,
The driver’s face especially.
Unlock Open Doors: Davido’s “IF” by Samsudeen Alabi
My phone sat between my hands, with fingers hovering over the lit screen. At the other end is my Kenyan friend, “typing.” And then my screen flushes with her text.…More
Another Day by Immaculata Abba
Orange clouds merge with the sun-filled spaces amidst leaf shadows on the wall
And our whole world becomes one gooey ember
Everywhere you look, the light is falling and even
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Codeine Diet by Dami Ajayi
Codeine Diet
Online is a weak cyber-metaphor for high
But you already know
Like you know blue is still the colour of the sky
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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