IT IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY I do not want to know the patterns of forgetting For my teacher would look me in the face To trace bent names she painted already in my...
Author - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto (@ChinuaEzenwa) is from Owerri-Nkworji in Nkwerre, Imo state, Nigeria and a lover of literature. He has won the Mazariyya ANA Teen Poetry Prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors, 2009; Speak to the Heart, Inc. Poetry Competition, 2016. He became a runner-up in Etisalat Prize for Literature, Flash fiction, 2014 with I Saved My Marriage. Recently, he won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize for an unpublished poem, 2018. And some of his works have appeared in Lunaris Review, AFREADA, Kalahari Review, Praxismagazine, The Rising Phoenix Review and Raffish Magazine.
EVERY NIGHT Every night I carry the memories of this place in my palms, caressing each of its pages, one by one, to feel them, maybe for the last time. Here...
Before I begin telling you how I survive in this town, I want to make a few things clear to you. We all know that in a day, there are three phases— morning...
WHAT OLA TOLD ME Ola, The fish who swam from a pond into an ocean a fingerling cursed this world which sucked her dry and left her desiccated for father and...
I marvel at how much we have become, and how Africa, as a whole, will turn out in a decade. It is the year 6014 in Owerri-Nkworji, Nkwerre L.G.A, Imo State...
That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite. She was blithe and permissive, carefree and lax. We’d...
