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REVIEW

2023 AKO Caine Prize

Features & Reviews

Is This, Finally, the Caine Year for Women?

PROSE

warriors

Fiction

Lucy Mwelu | The Crawler Warrior

16 Min Read

drive

Fiction

Claude Hiol | We Need to Talk

12 Min Read

POETRY

palms

Sunday Wura Best | Bullets on Wheels

Sunday Wura Best

1 Min Read

implosion

Popoola Ololade Aderemi | Where the Heart is

Popoola Ololade Aderemi

1 Min Read

elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao | Anatomy of Elegy

Osieka Osinimu Alao

1 Min Read

almajiri

Fiction

Aliyu Yakubu | Stolen Innocence

18 Min Read

smoke

Fiction

Omobola Osamor | Smoke

24 Min Read

RECENTLY...

mother or matyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini | Mother or Martyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini

16 Min Read

widow's happiness

Ugochukwu Anadị | A Widow’s Happiness Is Her Daughters

Ugochukwu Anadị

7 Min Read

Watering

Eliongema Udofia | All this flower needs…

Eliongema Udofia

3 Min Read

Do you remember Marang?

Itu Komane: Do You Remember Marang?

12 Min Read

rosary

Ritah Tumushabe | Sacred Threads: A Personal Journey of Faith and Loss

Ritah Tumushabe

12 Min Read

vulnerable moment

Osy Mizpah Unuevho | Gethsemane

Osy Mizpah Unuevho

2 Min Read

RANDOM FLASHBACK...

Fiction

My Precious, Precious Cream: Fiction by Olurotimi Osha

November 30, 2018

Poetry

Shadows of a Coming Darkness: Poems by Bello Akeem

November 19, 2017

Poetry

Abejide Michael Ayodeji: And there is a God…

February 28, 2022

Features & Reviews

A Review of Lola Shoneyin’s For The Love of Flight

April 21, 2011

Fiction

A Difficult Kind of Belief: A Short Stoy by Segun Akinyode

June 13, 2007

Poetry

Amarachi J. Ike | Genesis

April 29, 2023

Poetry

Zenas Ubere: News at Nine

March 31, 2019

Features & Reviews

In Defense of Simplicity of Language in Nigerian Narratives

May 9, 2007

Features & Reviews

A World full of Characters: Kabu Okai-Davies at the 2016 Bookworm Literary Festival

April 24, 2016

Poetry

Home Alone, Traveller: Poems by Kola Tubosun

December 6, 2009

Poetry

Night Opens My Mind: Poems by Henry Ajumeze

January 11, 2008

Fiction

The Days of Small Pig-Innings! Fiction by Ciru Israel

July 4, 2017

Poetry

God Punish You, Lord Lugard: Poems by Ogaga Ifowodo

May 27, 2005

Features & Reviews

A Translation of the Fragments of Human Bodies in War, Peace and Reconciliation

May 29, 2014

Poetry

If I were to come again: Poetry by Adekunle Oluseyi Afolabi

April 24, 2011

Fiction

Death as an Angel: Fiction by Victor Damilola Garuba

January 8, 2017