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Issue 33 | May 2021

  • May 30, 2021
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MEET THE TEAM CREDITS   Editorial: When Loss Evolves Interview Motive and African Writing: A Conversation with Soji Cole Fiction Black Lives Always Matter The Worry List The Concubine One…
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Credits

  • May 30, 2021
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PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART Jesudara Hinmikaiye Brand: Jesudara Hinmikaiye Facebook: Jesudara Hinmikaiye Twitter: Artby_dara IG: https://instagram.com/artby.dara Elendu Wisdom Chikwado IG: shoot_it_wiz Twitter: thelendu Brand name: Wiz! PRODUCTION Nzube…
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Meet the Team

  • May 30, 2021
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Meet the Team FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia COPY EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim ARTS & PHOTOGRAPHY Jesudara Hinmikaiye (Nigeria) Elendu Wisdom Chikwado…
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Editorial: When Loss Evolves

  • May 30, 2021
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When Loss Evolves Loss marks a significant aspect of human reality. It morphs itself into varying forms in our lives, manifesting to some as a marker of freedom, and for…
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To Catch Up With Hare & Stranded Prayers

  • May 30, 2021
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To Catch Up with Hare   Her sunken eyes are ships wrecked in a tempest of tears. I have no hands miraculous to help. & if there’s healing in sympathy,…
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Gravity Pulls a Leaping Boy and Drags Him to Death

  • May 30, 2021
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After Aremu Adams Adebisi   Gravity pulls a leaping       boy & drags him              to death how long before             a jump becomes a suicide      how long before a boy             becomes a…
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Mother’s Instructions

  • May 30, 2021
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Mother said, “never let your skirts go above your knees,” “Your thighs attract men’s hands,” “Don’t let your shirts show your shoulders or the path between your breasts, they cast…
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To the Freedom Fighter

  • May 30, 2021
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You do not spill fluid Burst a pipe To set it free. The freedom of a pipe Is its ability to deliver The fluid to the required destination. A kite…
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Supplication to the Ghost of my Grandmother as a Cautery for Drowning Kids

  • May 30, 2021
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i my mother sits on our threadbare mat languaging her thoughts into prayers. the lantern brightens everything in the room except her grief. she says to God; Ọ̀lùwà jọ̀wọ́ fún…
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Youth

  • May 30, 2021
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coffin is the wife     of grave we met ours under the siege     of darkness.   youth is a crime in my country. youth is the bride     of dust.   Lagos…
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