Saturday, July 27, 2024

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B. Ańjọláolúwa | The Art of Living

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Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need...

Borrowed Smile: A Short Story by Chika Unigwe

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  It is not possible to describe it if you...

Girl, Blue Eyes, Boy: Fiction by Marvel Chukwudi Pephel

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Lagos, Circa 3096. The streets of Victoria Island wore a...

Diary of a Forlorn Black Woman: A Story by Ciru Israel

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Last weekend I started dating. Again. After a long...

Ojaide sings The Tale of the Harmattan from Cape Town

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Absorbing, startling and uncannily pitched to public and private...

Memory Work and the Gut Symmetry of Writing

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  The very act of writing anything is emotional. It...

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I Want To Be Part Of The Nigerian Literary Community – Ken Wiwa

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KEN Bornale Wiwa sits behind his glass topped, forged...

Abenea Ndago: History Will Forever Remain Literature’s Most Intimate Mistress

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Abenea Ndago is the author of several short stories,...

A Paean to the Son of Idoto: My Thoughts about Christopher Okigbo

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I might as well admit it at the beginning:...

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

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

Broken Lines – A Longer Poem by Isidore Emeka Uzoatu

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(i) FIRST INK Manual labourer writ large Forever tilling page, Sculpting for...

Frank Njugi | Black boys are volatile

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Black Boys Are Volatile In a bleak midwinter, a boy...

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Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

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