Fiction and Poetry

The Last Rule of Theft | Oluseye Fakinlede

1. Being friend with an Agbado Boy is not enough to become a real tiff.…

Planes and Plains | Ugochukwu Anadị

Planes and plains are parting paths. Chief and Alhaji are on board. Musa and the…

Burning Bodies | Chourouq Nasri

With the door shut, neighbours, those who are still alive, can believe that this is…

Open City & Other Poems

open city after Teju Cole i have been further south than my heart heavy in…

Woman Protester, & Praise Song

Woman Protester By Joseph Hope She’s not crazy        Just hurt Her vitals…

Poetry: Agbalala, & How Was It You Died?

By Prosper Ifeanyi AGBALALA Noble enough, I wish to be, when I desert you. Paean…

A Journey to Gwarinpa, Abuja

…as the sun steadily makes its descent in the sky, and you, having pushed any…

Haunting

By Abdulkareem Abdulkareem (Pānini) In her dreams, she sees this baby as a silhouette walking…

I Toil Through the Deep, & Other Poems

By Martin Ijir I Toil Through the Deep Come, let’s have this shower These October…

Dearest, & Child, Though Death be a Tyrant, not Every Dead Yielded to Tyranny

By Chisom Charles Nnanna Dearest I know what it means to go the mirror &…