Saturday, July 5, 2025

Tumi | The Man in My Dream

Fiction Tumi -
I was married, but I didn’t live with him. I visited him sometimes, and each time I did, his presence...

Akinyi Margareta Ocholla | April Rain

Fiction Akinyi Margareta Ocholla -
The soft hum sifted through MJ's mind and grew gently in intensity. As she awakened the hum crystallized to...

Dotun Jide | Àkúdàáyà: Your Face is White

Fiction Dotun Jide -
The message from the village came at the most inconvenient time, but so grave was the countenance of Bòóda...
Fiction

Carolyn W. Gatonye | Broccoli and a “Thingira”

I looked at my uncle.  Frail. Tattered. Lost…or so he seemed.                                    He sat alone, maybe deep in thought, hunched...
Non-Fiction

Gregory Olumuyiwa Marinho | The Games We Played

Play acting was our favourite pastime. Equipped with old boxes, sticks, ropes, palm fronds, tin cans, and an abundance of imagination,...

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