Issue 35 | September 2021
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: In Hoping, We Ascend INTERVIEW Connecting Creativity and Criticism: A Conversation with Adewale Maja-Pearce FICTION Babylon is a Bitch The Fetus or O Feto POETRY…
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September 2021
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Meet the Team
Meet the Team FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Frank…
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Editorial: In Hoping, We Ascend
In Hoping, We Ascend “Transcending” is the derived theme for issue 35, and I cannot help but say how delighted we are to curate this edition. From issue 29, September…
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Where the Dead Can Finally Die
ii [12:00am] A boy cannot ignore the tantrums in every repose. Nothing remains calm that is calm forever. Even the Dead: His father, ghost-rizzling into the dried leaves …
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What the Medicine Man Said & Soccer Viewing Centre
WHAT THE MEDICINE MAN SAID The advert blasting from the megaphone on the dusty, white van bordered on vitriol. The advert was for herbal medicine & the speaker had a…
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Ode to Homeliness & Other Poems
WHAT IT IS ABOUT NAMES every word i say is an alley between two walls [worlds] it’s the story of my name as melodies void of recognition as the stench…
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this journey ends as an infinite poem
with leaflets from the book of Psalms, i create this paper boat, & add wings to it so i can paddle down the seas of time. the memories of…
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Happiness is a Boat & The Plight of a Heart at War with God
Happiness is a Boat after Sadiq Oyekanmi’s “paper boat” v. death is fluid it will flow into every household someday and if it tries to drown you in its…
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Dear Brother
(After Hassan Taiwo) for my brother, Ariyo Sodiq Bodies wrinkled into the hands of time, flung into different paths like the dispersal of birds at the throw of small stones…
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