LET US KEEP A TRYST Let’s keep a tryst beyond where human sights extend; far from where billows of flue gases spoil the beauty of the world. Let’s seek an...
Author - Ohikhuare 'Emmanuel' Isuku
Ohikhuare 'Emmanuel' Isuku is a Nigerian writer. His play – The Ballot and the Sanctuary (released under the pseudonym Emmanuel Isuku) – was published in 2014 by University Press, PLC., Ibadan. Currently, he is at work on a full length novel.
IT’S NOT DEATH I’M SCARED OF Still, there are virgin lands scattered around the earth; and there are verdant hills, plains and sprawling valleys where my body...
It was in Ibadan that Ohiozua first saw women covered completely with black gowns and veils like his village masquerades. He was alarmed at first and had been...
If Johnson had known, he would have taken the advice of his white flat mate in Montgomery, to stay in America and never return to Nigeria, even with the...
As soon as your young aunty called your name, and you raised your head above the clusters of brown grasses which flanked the Church way to recognize her...
HALF-GROWN MOON Half-grown moon, shaped like cut calabash where’s your other half? Did you bury it beneath the deep greyness of the May clouds or you hid it...
ONCE UPON JANUARY January is dull; the dullest Of its brethren with sick breath Like a woman gnawing teeth In labour pangs Stirring up rancid smell Of goats...