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WHISPERING TREES AT THE CEMETERY by Chinweokwu Ukwueze
WHISPERING TREES AT THE CEMETERY by Chinweokwu Ukwueze It was mid-year in Nsukka when the clouds merged with the earth to become one. The brown soil of Nsukka had become muddy and clumpy, sticking to the shoes. During this period of the year, the skies were always...
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author Spotlight On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Perhaps the most celebrated African writer on the continent today, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a woman whose wealth of talent has not gone unnoticed. From her success in the publishing industry to her strides in the field...
SMITTEN by Eghele Akpere
SMITTEN by Eghele Akpere On...
BROKEN TEARS by Akinsanya Damilola
BROKEN TEARS by Akinsanya Damilola "Broda please, please find me something, my belle dey crack, broda please, please abeg you." He said this line in the same precise version over and again as though he spent an entire day memorizing that part. I looked straight into...
THE SECOND PASSENGER IN THE FRONT SEAT by Opeyemi Adebari
THE SECOND PASSENGER IN THE FRONT SEAT by Opeyemi Adebari 6th August, 2017 Ibadan to Abeokuta is not much of a distance. With a sensible driver and a vehicle in excellent condition, one should make the trip in 90 minutes at most. We had just crossed over to the other...
MY DAUGHTER IN AN IRON PANTY by Olusegun Ogunmola
MY DAUGHTER IN AN IRON PANTY by Olusegun Ogunmola Amina spoils the holy streets of Sokoto With the stench from her fistulated tract, As grandpa struggles to tame his libido That keeps begging for more of the act Ada is silently driven madly insane: The horror won't...
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT on Chinua Achebe
Author Spotlight On Chinua Achebe Arguably the greatest novelist to ever come from the black continent, Chinualumogu “Chinua” Achebe is a towering figure who needs no introduction whatsoever. With the African Trilogy and his Man Booker International Prize win, Achebe...
LOVE TALES by Eghele Akpere
LOVE TALES by Eghele Akpere It was love’s lullaby That turned the heart blind; To the unloved one, The wisest lover is a fool. It was love’s blindness, That cursed the fool brave; The lame, for her said, I’d leap over a hill. It was love’s whispers, That forced the...
“Poetry is imperfect and it’s that imperfection that makes poetry beautiful” – Interview with Okwudili Nebeolisa
TABLE TALK "Poetry is imperfect and it’s that imperfection that makes poetry beautiful" - Interview with Okwudili Nebeolisa We recently met up with Okwudili Nebeolisa, a heavily-decorated Nigerian writer. His manuscript, "Country" was one of the final shortlisted...
RATED EIGHTEEN by Olusegun Ogunmola
RATED EIGHTEEN (Remain a Child) by Olusegun Ogunmola I may taste the connubial meal, Subtly dished in a LED screen; I may force the orgasmic thrill, Once I am ripe— only eighteen? My lips may be blackened by tar And my breath odorized by nicotine; (I may even brush...
ON DAYS SUCH AS TODAY by Elujulo Oluwatobiloba
ON DAYS SUCH AS TODAY by Elujulo Oluwatobiloba On a day such as today When it rains as though it would never stop And then stops as though it never rained. We laugh and we talk Wasn’t it the other day we saw the girls Playing and talking and laughing Doing their best...
“I am a realist. I write fiction that is as close to ‘life’ as possible” – Interview with Arinze Ifeakandu
TABLE TALK "I am a realist. I write fiction that is as close to 'life' as possible" - Interview with Arinze Ifeakandu Ifeakandu is one of the five writers shortlisted for the 2017 Caine Prize for African writing, arguably the biggest competitive literary award on the...
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