Monday, September 15, 2025

Deji Bejide | Three Ghosts Walk into a Bar

Poetry Deji Bejide -
I passed Jesus the blunt.He doesn’t puff, doesn’t preach —just holds it like a memory,like the kind of love...

Abiodun Salako | Benue in The Mouth of God

Poetry Abiodun Salako -
Benue in The Mouth of God after 151 lost angels at dawn, while having breakfast, i watch the newslike someone watches...

Abigail George | Longing

Poetry Abigail George -
Longing, and on reading that sad story Flowers for Algernon, here are some thoughts - for K. Sello Duiker I sleep when...
Fiction

Utonwa Bekee | The Sound of Her Slippers

In Block C of a hostel that had once been a seminary before the government repurposed it into a federal university...
Fiction

Lucy Mwelu | A Morning in the Life of a Dad

The silence is loud this morning. It screeches. Howls like a wounded animal. I toss and turn, pulling and pushing everything...
Essays & Reviews

Masculine Gaze and Dystopia in Nthikeng Mohlele’s ‘Breasts, etc.’

Nthikeng Mohlele's latest novel, Breasts, etc. offers a profound expression of terror and delight. The savouring of the pleasures of femininity...
Essays & Reviews

We Are Travellers in Time: A Review of Mohammed Salihu’s ‘Voices from the Soil’

In Voices from the Soil, the poet Mohammed Salihu reminds us to acknowledge the inevitability of the pain and ache we...

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