Saturday, July 27, 2024

DIACRITIQUE

Ghosts in the Dark: Fiction by Emmanuel Tochukwu Okafor

My father is no father at all. He is...

Iridescent Hope: A Short Story by Jola Naibi

She smelt it before she saw it and the...

Before His Legend: A Short Story by Jude Ifeme

Like a window to a home Is the eye to...

Chasing After Shadows: A Review of Maik Nwosu’s ‘Alpha Song’

IMPRINT: LAGOS: HOUSE OF MALAIKA &  BEACON BOOKS, 2001 The...

The Activist Dies in Tanure Ojaide’s Dreams

So the other day, my friend Okwy Okeke called...

Jailed in the Black Body: A Review of Caleb Azumah’s Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson's recent novel Open Water (2021) explores...

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Namwali Serpell: Planting Seeds in a Garden of Intention

Namwali Serpell. Born in Lusaka, Zambia. The ethereal forms...

Victor Ehikhamenor: Confronting an Empty Canvas

My muse is like the shell to its tortoise, we go everywhere together. But she is more active while I am in Nigeria...

G’Ebinyo Ogbowei: On Empires, Prickly Poetry and the Coming Hour of Reckoning

Uche Peter Umez interviews G’Ebinyo Ogbowei, former Head of...

Tolu Fagbure | Case Closed!

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

Immortality: Poetry by Abalanne Xafulo Ugochukwu

Immortality I intercepted a letter from hell sent by an angel...

Nwaoha Chibuzor Anthony: Moths and Flames

MOTHS AND FLAMES "Pain, betrayal, love and a teaspoon of...

Mid-life Crisis of a Major god: Poems by Stanley Princewill McDaniels

Mid-life Crisis of a Major god . Most days                     I feel have...

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Talent Madhuku | The Video Recordings

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

Paul Chibuike Emenike | Idanre

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

Azubuike Obi | Welcome to a New Dispensation

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

Abu Ibrahim | Final Banquet of Desires

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

Abenea Ndago: A Funeral in Ladybrand

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

Abigail George | This is what happens to my tears

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

Ubong Johnson | Let Us All Go

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

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