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One or the Other - An Article by Sefi Atta

I used to think that I was blessed to grow up in a family where I could celebrate both Christian and Moslem holidays and considered myself fortunate to have been spared the burden of choosing between the two. However, I have been conflicted occasionally...

Fallen Stars - Poems by Chinye Billeter

He seeks to abide in hearts reaching for each other
Without the merging of marrow on corridors of retribution,
But with sacred torches coursing through interstitial planes
In search of a pre-eminent monument...

A Lifetime Under The African Sky - A Poem by Carol Basudde

Under an African sky

Walks a boy who grew into a man

And a girl who grew into a woman

Dark as the same sky at night...


The Legend of Andrew Zubair – A Short Story by Adeleke Adesanya

In all my teaching experience, in Suruleria University and elsewhere, I have never heard of the chronicles of an academic career to rival that of Andrew Zubair in its ability to inspire. It is the story of a young man who found out that doing what was just enough was never going to be sufficient…

When The Veneer Cracks…A Short Story by Sandra-Anne Heteckery-Gudza

They’d run off every girlfriend he’d ever had in his life, and had fought him valiantly each time he’d wanted to settle down. They’d failed when it had come to Danai. She had a strong fighting spirit of her own, and had fought together with him for their love and their life....

A Walk In The Sky - Poems by Fr. Remi Okere

I trek in distress, the route to my roots
In search of my love, motherland most sweet
Where my spirit wanders in disguise
On the wings of my dreams...

A Box of Atonement - A Short Story by Emma Iduma

He began to find love elsewhere, and not where he expected. She was still in Law School and she said she was unready for anything called marriage. She said she loved him, especially his perceivable diligence, but she was unready. He said he would wait for her to even start practicing her law, she said he should not bother. She did not know if she would be ready, then...

The West Is The Giver And Taker Of Literary Life – Chinedu Ogoke

In 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, a Nigerian writer resident in Germany published his first novel, Under Fire. His second novel is being awaited. In this interview with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Mr. Ogoke speaks on his work and the state of African Literature in relation to the still thorny issue of audience definition...

The Tortoise and the Gem of Priceless Value - A Poem by D.M.D. Goodhead

The light-hearted day drummed its way

     across the mighty savanna of the sky.

The earth rumbled with the gritty labor

     of the fabled fellow of animal town...





Recent Entries

Towards the Demolition of Jericho Walls: The Task Before the Writer in a Developing Polity

The polarization of the countries of the world into developing developed nations has brought in its wake a dichotomy in the perception of ideas, concepts and cannons by different specialists in these divides...

Every Day Is For The Thief

There are many things to like about this little book that purrs gently, ever so gently. The book exudes the quiet confidence of a writer properly centered in the beauty and challenges of his being...

The Demystification of the ‘Euromerican’ Myth in Awoshakin’s Lost and Found in America

Tokunbo Awoshakin has successfully brought the realities of being a legal immigrant in the United States to the doorstep of all of us...

Burma Boys and Strange Wars

Have you ever read a book that you could never put down because you feel this weird obligation to finish it? To relive that experience, buy Biyi Bandele’s book Burma Boy...

In the name of our sisters: Everything Good Will Come

Sister Atta, you speak to me in your book. You speak to me from deep in the bowels of my ancestors’ coven. You speak to me howling, bawling, and soaking me in the song of our mothers’ grief...

An Excerpt from Richard Ugbede Ali's The Ravages Of Dust

He sat in his room in the hostel and wondered why he had sent that accursed email. It was all he could think of for it somehow suggested he was much sillier than he allowed himself reasonable leash. In those weeks of hurting emptiness, he wondered if there was anything wrong with his sending the email. Was the problem not that he detected a poorly concealed hostility...

About 'urn - A Short Story by Segun Akinyode

My journey home was uneventful until I stumbled on a group of policemen. They had mounted a roadblock at a roundabout. I was sure the blockade was illegal because the group was so concealed, that I nearly walked through it before a voice ordered me to halt. I knew instantly I was in trouble...

Oil On Water – A Short Story by Sandra A. Mushi

I had been warned that city people were conniving. She absolutely couldn’t be one of them. Conniving people were rude and unkind. She had woken me up and offered to help me - that is a sure sign of kindness, right? Lamely I tagged behind…

Trims of Blood - Poems by Henry Ajumeze

I walked past my father's shrine

past Ikenga, shelter of gods stringed with amulets

i walked past the narrow path

littered with ant-holes...


The Story of Becoming - Lessons from my Grandfather – A Poem by Nducu wa Ngugi

I remember waiting for my grandfather to tell me

The tales of life before the drought

And the accompanying strangers

Would they ever leave?


Harmattan - Poems by Uchenna Shadrach Franklin

In your hisses I here the clock’s clicks

And the approach of nature’s train

To take me home...


Moo - Poems by Stephen Oladele Solanke

We are...the revolving door
the windmill
the splush of dripping blood
the jerking at the drop of life...

Battle Against Vulnerability - A Short Story by Emmanuel Onyedi Wingate

She rushed him to the hospital. She would seek orthodox remedies for her husband. She also sent for her father. He would consult a Babalawo, to seek the source of his ill health and if possible, appease the gods to intervene. She was shocked when the doctor announced that her husband had AIDS...

If I Die Unsung...A Poem by Olasunkanmi Sanusi

I was born at the stretch of a home
where survival was everybody’s song
Strife was our wine and betrayals our oil...

The Sepulcher Speaks - A Short Story by Lakunle Jaiyesimi

Do the dead speak with words, serrated by syllables as is known of walking figures? Are words thrown up, like mines, from relegated sepulchers in the manner of whispers heavier than the songs of heroes? Do they crack shells of obduracy, and, with light strides, seek out change; illuminating, with the speed of rays, the path to progress and the skeletons that had been out of sight?

Okamma n’ilo – A Short Story by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe

I knew my siblings had not been too happy about my decision to come back to Nigeria when I finished my master’s program in Canada.  They could not understand how I could give up the opportunity to live abroad, an opportunity people prayed for, queuing up at embassies for visas and giving testimonies in church about…


The Worshipper – A Poem by Raïs Neza Boneza

I climb the hill of my feelings

To satisfy my sight.

I seek to find, my reason is lost.

In my estrangement my soul speaks...


February 13 - A Poem by Austyn Njoku

I prefer you in my dream
The dream I've hugged
For seasons with my soul...

For Both Our Sakes - A Short Story by Nnamdi Oguike

The piano was the finest and most comforting thing in the loneliness of our big house. My fingers usually galloped out of it confused sounds and chords and chaotic arpeggios. But not so when Munachi’s gifted hands lifted forgiveness and sorrow and complexity out of the dark rooms of the piano...

Mama Africa - A Poem by Selome Araya

It is time

To lift me up

I am still your mama

And I know you...


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