The themes of motherhood, womanhood and debased sexuality have been explored in various fictional narratives by African writers, bringing to the fore issues confronted by women in both the imagined and actual society. Literature thus plays a...
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babylon: la petite mort II. We die little deaths throughout our existence wrapped in an unforgiving cocoon of unknown pretense. Pretending life to be what we dreamed. We die little deaths ensconced in the resemblance of remembrance, withering away...
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10th July, 2017. It is just a few minutes past 11 a.m., and I am trudging across a narrow muddy path that leads home. I am sweaty and my breath is coming in shaky, discordant puffs. I am tired of running like a dolt without direction. The path is...
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DAUGHTERS SITTING TOGETHER AT THE KITCHEN TABLE (for the Dutch poet Joop Bersee) Here’s looking at you at fifty. You’re fifty still living in your parents’ house. You’re not happy...
MARIAM IS MEMORIES Those who own the dead, flip through mind frames to lodge the sun where there had been drowning flood. Even when Mariam calls the laughter, I see in her face...
ÈṢÙ IS NOT SATAN When men err and the air they breathe is evil When women are wound in woeful wonts They say it’s you. They say it’s Satan. They say it’s Èṣù. They say it’s the...
I. Dr Olu Ajasin went mad every morning he woke to the signature corruption of post-independence Eugina, especially after a night of dreams where he lived in a Eugina empowered...
GODHEAD When Mother walks her hands plant themselves grudgingly on her waist, a smile adorning her face while her eyes tell tales of sorrow. When Mother talks, her lips engage in...
‘So you won’t give me grandchildren,’...
ART EXHIBITION It was dinner time in my...
DILEMMA OF A SOLDIER When from the...
BOOMERANG (HERE…) Spinning in circles...
Paul Liam
Erere Onyeugbo
Abigail George
Ndubuisi Martins Aniemeka
Kayode Afolabi
Onuchukwu Joseph Chimezie
Tope Akeredolu
Emuobome Jemikalajah
Nnaemeka Oruh
Sola Osofisan
Abenea Ndago
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Isaac Attah Ogezi
E. E. Sule
Eric Atie
Uche Peter Umez