Fiction and Poetry

Untitled Poem for a Boy Who Never Knew Love
Untitled Poem for a Boy Who Never Knew Love | By Stephen Nwankwo

I sang lullabies with eyes stitched shut, my voice a cage, a shackle wrapped in…

Across the Border
Across the Border | Fiction by Bello Taiwo Victoria

1. I am on a train going to Hampstead for my mother’s surprise professorship dinner…

two poems
“the village’s elegy” & “A sonnet is fighting absolution” | Poems by Josiane Kouagheu

the village’s elegy i attend many funerals                               and truth is, i can’t help. i see…

poems
“Transit”, “Leaven”, & ”Arrive in Your Skeleton” | Poems by Abiodun Salako

Transit  Between airports, I lose pieces of myself — a mother’s laugh, an orison in…

Homecoming
HOMECOMING | Fiction by Chukwuebuka Obiakaeze

1. The weeks that led to Afunwa’s return came with a lot of speculation,  even…

Two poems
“Ancestry” & “The Cathedral” | Poems by Chimezie Umeoka

Ancestry  If my grandfather ever touched my body I do not remember. I was barely …

two poems
Two Poems by Doreen Masika

In One of the Episodes… I’m standing somewhere between fallen kingdoms and fading kin. A…

in your image
In Your Image | Poem by Tuke Ronald

As if my arms were in chains As though my legs were cuffed to the…

Onipanu
Looking For Cloudberries In Onipanu, Or When You Fall Out Of Love

What if I told you that on the night the police threw me into that…

three poems
Three Poems | By Saadatu Uzairu

EID ON AN EMPTY STREET Shall I tell you how I burn out? Stand out,…