July 2020

Interviews

INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF OGUNDELE

Sheriff Ogundele INTERVIEWER: NZUBE NLEBEDIM NN: There have been disputes on the necessity of parsing literature as a practice and form into different geographical divisions. What’s your position on African…

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Essays

Loyola and the Home of Flourishing Faunae

CHIDIEBUBE ONYE OKOHIA “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” I stepped into the wilderness when I arrived Loyola compound along Old Ife Road, Agodi,…

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Essays

Africa’s Politicisation of Slavery and the Derivatives of Racism: A Case Study of George Floyd

ALEXANDER OPICHO George Floyd, a black man of fourty-six years, and a father of two children in Minneapolis, attempted to con a tobacco and wine store owner by trying to…

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Poetry

ETCHINGS ON A CARVED SKIN

OKOLO CHINUA My heart holds many locked rooms within, rooms I cannot open I walk the stairs of my memories each time I close my eyes It’s soaked, dripping… A…

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Poetry

On Black Street: Waterholes & Wildlife

MARTINS DEEP caution: a photographer must tread gingerly filming only with lenses positioned at the corner of his eyes. on Black Street, the walls are cartridge papers bearing paintings of…

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Poetry

BLIND EYES

ENITAN ABDULTAWAB In a sick relief I guess Would I sit back and watch it all? A pointed stick that would pierce one’s eyes Is to be avoided while it…

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Poetry

THIS SON OF A FOREIGN GOD

ADEPOJU ISAIAH GBENGA (I) Dear Son, When the gods asked me who you were, I said; You are like a hawk that flew to the land of doves And when…

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Poetry

STILL BORN

IKECHUKWU IWUAGWU It is of futility a foresight To relate the Africa’s giant future site Her rind, six decades to be very soon Had witnessed shades of pogroms under the…

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Poetry

THE WILLOW WIDOW

ABUDU-BHADMUS OMOLABAKE My little window has become my companion The only proof there is a world beyond my deep agony: The green field contrasting the dark hole I’m in. My…

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Poetry

WALLS OF LONGING

SAI SABOUKE Today, again, I wake up — a truck Contemplating which highway to take. Though aware I am that all the roads Lead nowhere, my feet, carved To re-walk…

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INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF OGUNDELE

Loyola and the Home of Flourishing Faunae

Africa’s Politicisation of Slavery and the Derivatives of Racism: A Case Study of George Floyd

ETCHINGS ON A CARVED SKIN

On Black Street: Waterholes & Wildlife

BLIND EYES

THIS SON OF A FOREIGN GOD

STILL BORN

THE WILLOW WIDOW

WALLS OF LONGING

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