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
Silhouettes│Adesina Ajala
Sometimes, you barely feel it breathe, though it fills out the breadth of your being. Other times, it’s merely a voice in your ears; calling, clanging, clutching the faith in…More
3 Poems│Oghenetega Grey
Scattered Verses of My Letter to God iii. I remember the day you died,It was the same evening pa lost his name.We called him a body.The sky stained himself with…More