CYCLES (For Nosa) Days come, Days go, Each writes a distinct Paragraph in the essay of our lives. Some wield knives of disillusion; lacerate the skin of fate...
Author - Nduka Otiono
Nduka Otiono is a writer and Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. He has been a journalist and General Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Among his creative writing books are: The Night Hides with a Knife (short stories), which won the ANA/Spectrum Prize for fiction; Voices in the Rainbow (Poems), a finalist for the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize; Love in a Time of Nightmares (Poems) for which he was awarded the James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing. Otiono has co-edited We-Men: An Anthology of Men Writing on Women (1998), and Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006).
NENGI JOSEF OWEI-ILAGHA, fondly called Pope Pen the First, was recently released after 135 days of incarceration at Okaka Medium Security Prison, Yenagoa...
