Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

Eyes Wide Open: Fiction by Hannah Onoguwe

It was a marketplace at high noon. But it...

The Butterflies Inside of You: Fiction by Victor Daniel

You were fascinated by the flair with which she...

The Visit: A Short Story by Asante Lucy Mtenje

“Mama, what are you doing here? I thought I told you not to come anymore? Why are you wasting the little money that you have to come and visit me here?” The voice that came from his bony frame was hoarse and harsh...

Nairobi Heat: A Juxtaposition of Race and Crime

Book: Nairobi Heat Author: Mukoma Wa Ngugi Publisher: Cassava Republic Press Date:...

What is Really Wrong with the Publishers in Nigeria?

You don’t have to call it a publishing firm...

Sacred Suicide: Re-Reading Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman Forty Years After

Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka is...

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A Daughter’s Burden: Obiageli Ibrahimat Okigbo & the Christopher Okigbo Legacy

‘’Have you seen Nduka Otiono?’’ ‘’No I haven’t. Am...

Images that Linger, Words that Bite

  And now the horn may paw the air, Howling goodbye. -...

E.E. Sule: A Burden to Get it Right

The problems with my earlier books are not really my problems, they are Nigeria’s problems! Almost all books published in Nigeria have similar problems. So, instead of running away, so to say, from our problem by not listing our poorly produced books in Nigeria, we should face the problems!

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

…tying the knot of Nigerian unity Characters ManWoman Performance Note  There is a...

A Sorrowful Fate: Two Poems by Maryam Gatawa

A SORROWFUL FATE I'll submit my pains in ships To sail...

Becoming a Crow: Two Poems by Oluwatoyosi Agbaakin

BECOMING A CROW When they tell you: That your skin speaks...

Abigail George | A Poem

Take this shrapnel and make a rose garden out...

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Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

It’s so cold. My nostrils are clogged. My cheeks...

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

She can’t sleep. It must be the worry, seasoned...

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

   Sista mi, how you naw? It has been...

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

I am Tafadzwa. When I left Harare last month...

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

IDANRE Woman you are sad!‘Tis the same with me.—Ralph Armattoe. I.My...

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

This is what happens to my tears and the...

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

FINAL BANQUET OF DESIRES It is prison culture to give...

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