Salim Yakubu Akko | How My Mother Prays | Poetry
How My Mother Prays in a graveyarddeceased are buriedwith white yards ¬ all with lustrous boxes as we have metalsthat are malleable, ductile and sonorouslike my father’s poetic wordswe still…More
Reminiscence | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh | Poetry
My eyes are full of tears like a morningdew sprinkles in the sky. & sitting at the school’s balcony, awaiting my deadfather to come for me in human’s form, like…More
3 Poems │ Salami Alimot Temitope
What Is Deeper Than the Hole in My Heart? Death walked into the euphoria of our home / gripped you with its sturdy hands & dragged you / to the…More
Beloved │ Mahbubat Kanyinsola Salahudeen │ Poetry
/Beloved/The most beautiful thing I’ve ever felt is you, and I remain convinced that the most beautiful thing I’ve ever felt is still you. The nectar of your nether lips…More
Hang In There, Earthling │ Prosper Ifeanyi │ Poetry
but what is progressivenessif we want more?of what use is altruismwhen we are able to garnerthrough greed& avarice?this tapestryoverwhelms me,it should you toobecause,people talk. they talk about how slowtime ebbs…how…More
3 Poems │ Ugochukwu Anadị
Is this a One-Night Stand? It’s evening yet the coldhas frozen my blanket.It’s evening yet and your adamantinemouth has gone to the silence market.It’s evening yet, and I’m yet to…More
What I Mean When I Say Grief Is Also a Cloth │ Olalekan Hussein │ Poetry
When death gave my father a bitter smile in the middle of the night;this death choked his breath and kissed his headlike a thief recites some verses before scaling a…More
Achebe Speaks │ Eberechukwu Noble │ Poetry
According to Achebe, “we were able to demonstrate that it was possible for African people, entirely on their own, to refine oil.” And after those who had barrels filled with…More
Down and Out in Denmark: Katrine W. Kjaer Takes on African Adoption in A Girl in Return │ Kayode Faniyi
Seven years after the death of 13-year-old Hana Williams, an Ethiopian child adopted by a US couple, Ethiopia decided on an outright ban on foreign adoptions. US adoptions from Ethiopia…More
3 Poems │ Haruna Solomon Binkam
In the thicket Mothers hum & prod babiesbitten by tsetse flies. In the thicket every sleep is slippery towards silent stupor & mothers know every quiet eyeclosure is not peace…More