ROBERT MUGABE If only by scowling at the clock he could make it cower into the wall, till he heard its final cluck (like an old hen surprised by a hawk) of...
Author - Ogaga Ifowodo
Ogaga Ifowodo is Assistant Professor at Texas State University, San Marcos. Trained originally as a lawyer, he is also a poet and author of three books of poetry, the last being The Oil Lamp. His poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, and The Dalhousie Review, among others.
Homeland What are the things that grow here? Those that grow from stone, lacking life and root, flesh and water things cut as caps for the baldness of stone...
God Punish You, Lord Lugard The traffic warden’s white-and-yellow sleeve stopped our transport, a Lagos mini-bus bought from one of the rust heaps of...