Saturday, July 27, 2024

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No Visible Address: Fiction by Abigail George

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My father would read my journals with the savage...

Martins Favour: The Blue One

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You're acquainted with solitude. Your tongue has dipped and swirled...

Memories of River Ethiope: A Short Story by Ochuko Tonukari

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As I stood somewhere at the back of the...

The Writer and the Global Frontier

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Looking back, it is sometimes difficult to believe that...

Word Discrimination: the inhumanity of Microsoft Word

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Words, like human beings, hate to be discriminated against....

Just Flow!

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The popular jingle "If it is not Panadol it...

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Uzor Maxim Uzoatu: The Legend of Ben Tomoloju

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The arts scene of Lagos, nay Nigeria, owes a...

Titilope Sonuga: I believe in truth-telling as a pathway to healing

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Títílopẹ́ Sónúgà (she writes it as “Titilope Sonuga”) is...

Writing: Experience Bakes the Best Bread – Paul T. Liam

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  Once in a while, one comes across people who...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Hollow in a Man: Poems by Mary Opaluwa

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ANNIVERSARY OF MY SOLITUDE My gaze has been on the...

Okolo Chinua: In My Sleep I Am Romeo

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IN MY SLEEP I AM ROMEO Today I saw someone,...

Tolu’ A. Akinyemi: Let The Dead Forgive

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Let The Dead Forgive I have sent emissaries to the...

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Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

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