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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
DILEMMA OF A SOLDIER When from the...
ART EXHIBITION It was dinner time in my...
BOOMERANG (HERE…) Spinning in circles...
‘So you won’t give me grandchildren,’...
Paul Liam
Erere Onyeugbo
Ndubuisi Martins Aniemeka
Abigail George
Kayode Afolabi
Tope Akeredolu
Onuchukwu Joseph Chimezie
Felicia Taave
Joseph Omoh Ndukwu
Jude Ifeme
Amina Dauda Oseme
Nnaemeka Oruh
Ikhide R. Ikheloa (Nnamdi)
Bevan Bemgba Nyakuma
A. A. Rufai
Ebuka Prince Okoroafor
Anthony Okpunor
