Issue 34 | July 2021
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: Chaos as a Prelude to Reinvention INTERVIEW The Rise of a New Genre: a Conversation with T.L. Huchu FICTION Facelessness The Banishment POETRY Between a…
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July 2021
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Meet the Team
Meet the Team FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Jude Hindan GRAPHICS & DESIGN The…
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Editorial: Chaos as a Prelude to Reinvention
When Robert Bridges compiled posthumously in 1889 the extant works of poet and beloved friend, Gerard Manley Hopkins, he emphasised that the world was now ready to read Hopkins. Underneath…
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Dear Nnamdi: A Personal Editorial
Dear Nnamdi, Reading your manuscript, The Moth and the Light Bulb, is the warmest experience I have had since I left Owerri. It is cold and almost lightless here, and…
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This Truth that Stares at Us
Although you are supposed to be on your way to work, you decide to stay back a little when you see that CNN is about to do a documentary…
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To Live a Little
Inside the old Toyota Tazz, the three of us are attempting forgetfulness while the animal we are in speeds recklessly through the country. From inside here, the sides of…
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A Letter to the United African Republic
Being poor will make you so angry. Your emotions are so taut. Your thoughts overwhelm you until you feel claustrophobic. Your freedom is not yours to give. Your lips…
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A Flâneury With Myself
#1 Today is 1st May, 2020, a month since the government issued a lockdown in three states because of the pandemic. It is past 4:30AM, and I’m still in bed.…
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A Season’s Breath
I can’t sleep. Deep breath in. Boredom has hit me like a speck of bird poop that I can’t shake off. I’m doing that thing I did as a child…
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