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Issue 26 | March 2020 (PDF)

  • July 29, 2020
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  Cover art and photographs by Doyin Deji Read and download issue 26 | March 2020 here
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Issue 27 | May 2020

  • July 29, 2020
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INTERVIEWS Interview with Ella Dein POETRY You A Traveller Tells of Three Scenes The Case of Sun’s Brother How my Mirror Makes my Morning Muse On the Third Cockcrow FICTION…
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SUPPORTERS | ISSUE 28

  • July 28, 2020
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The South African Experience and Protest Poetry: A Reading of Zindzi Mandela’s “I Saw As A Child” and “I Have Tried Hard”

  • July 27, 2020
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NNADUBE JONATHAN EJIOGU Zindzi’s poems titled “I Saw as a Child” and “I Have Tried Hard,” construct clearly the situation of apartheid in the textual society which, of course, assumes…
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From Soyinka, Achebe to Ojaide: Issues in Nigerian Literature

  • July 27, 2020
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GANIU MUMIN The literature of Nigeria can be linked to the historical events that form the corpus of experience that Africa and its people encountered. Africa has witnessed many events…
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Uli

  • July 27, 2020
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  CHIDINMA OKONTA CONFIDENCE Mama’s dark skin shines. My first love, she smells like coconuts. Slightly built, yet strong, with smooth round face radiating bliss, she is comely with that…
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Ije

  • July 27, 2020
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  OTTIH ONYEDIKACHI The car swerved past me into the street where I stood by its junction. I turned sharply and ran to a side of the street and looked…
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Flowers Were Her Eyes

  • July 27, 2020
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KOMOLAFE BOLUWATIFE I am going to spend a good percentage of my life in Lagos, the western part of Nigeria. But I share an intense love for Imo, in the…
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On the Third Cockcrow

  • July 27, 2020
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  ABDULAZEEZ SHOMADE a strange sound scoots into my roomshakes my dreamy bed. my eyes twinkles before going back to sleep.again, the sound strikes. this time i’m half-awake struggling to…
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How My Mirror Makes My Morning Muse

  • July 27, 2020
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  ADESINA AJALA most mornings, i forget to look myself in the mirror—does a boy concern himself with his looks?—forget to let the mirror lure me back into myself. forget…
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