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REVIEW

2023 AKO Caine Prize

Features & Reviews

Is This, Finally, the Caine Year for Women?

PROSE

smoke

Fiction

Omobola Osamor | Smoke

24 Min Read

almajiri

Fiction

Aliyu Yakubu | Stolen Innocence

18 Min Read

POETRY

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

palms

Sunday Wura Best | Bullets on Wheels

Sunday Wura Best

1 Min Read

warriors

Fiction

Lucy Mwelu | The Crawler Warrior

16 Min Read

drive

Fiction

Claude Hiol | We Need to Talk

12 Min Read

RECENTLY...

widow's happiness

Ugochukwu Anadị | A Widow’s Happiness Is Her Daughters

Ugochukwu Anadị

7 Min Read

vulnerable moment

Osy Mizpah Unuevho | Gethsemane

Osy Mizpah Unuevho

2 Min Read

rosary

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

Ritah Tumushabe

12 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

mother or matyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini | Mother or Martyr

Lethukukhanya Mzulwini

16 Min Read

RANDOM FLASHBACK...

Poetry

Memories of Another Day: Poems by Sola Osofisan

August 16, 2012

Features & Reviews

The Role of Contemporary African Literature in Painting a True Image of Africa

June 27, 2016

Features & Reviews

The Journey of a Manuscript

October 11, 2012

Poetry

Ryan Cresswell | Scrubland

January 31, 2023

Poetry

A Community of Strangers: Poems by Abayomi Ogunniyi

July 11, 2016

Poetry

Dream on Canvas: Poems by Onis Sampson

June 5, 2017

Poetry

My Vision: Poetry by Adeola Ikuomola

August 30, 2018

Features & Reviews

Of Blood and Sacrifice: A Review of Chris Anyokwu’s Blood Lines & Other Plays

June 1, 2015

Poetry

Fattened Ghost: Poems by Abigail George

January 19, 2015

Poetry

Ahmad Isah Sabo: Goddess of Purity

April 30, 2020

Features & Reviews

Healing the Traumatic Wounds of History: Ogaga Ifowodo Reconstructs Identities

December 7, 2018

Fiction

The Sepulcher Speaks: A Short Story by Lakunle Jaiyesimi

March 18, 2008

Fiction

To Be the Bridesmaid: A Short Story by Felicia Taave

March 31, 2017

Poetry

Samson’s Petals: Poems by Chijioke Umunnakwe

April 24, 2011

Poetry

A Young Woman’s Thoughts in the Silence of Her Bedroom: Poems by Abigail George

June 18, 2014

Fiction

The Meeting: A Short Story by Okey Egboluche

January 1, 2010