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Victor Osemeka | Talks of War

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Abiodun Salako | Benue in The Mouth of God

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Abigail George | Longing

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

Philip Chijioke Abonyi | Three Poems

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To Stay Bald Before Self-harm Some images are orifices that compel usto unknown nooks.There are many terraces in my torso,each...

Deji Bejide | Three Ghosts Walk into a Bar

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

People

Rory Kilalea: There is a growing lack of respect for kindness

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...

Poetry

H.E. Ross | The Foolishness of Men

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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Victor Osemeka | Talks of War

Abiodun Salako | Benue in The Mouth of God

Abigail George | Longing

Philip Chijioke Abonyi | Three Poems

Deji Bejide | Three Ghosts Walk into a Bar

Rory Kilalea: There is a growing lack of respect for kindness

Utonwa Bekee | The Sound of Her Slippers

Lucy Mwelu | A Morning in the Life of a Dad

H.E. Ross | The Foolishness of Men

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

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

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Sandra Chimezie | The Thing Between Us

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