Lost Things
Ever since Glory and Gloria matured into children old enough to envision the appearance of evil, their mother told them how evil Mr Okoro was. She described his evil with…
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January 2022
18 posts
Sir, Give Me Just a Fiver
Translated into English by Lara Pawson Sir, give me just a fiver, just a fiver, really, to buy some bread, I’m hungry, I still haven’t eaten anything since the day…
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Rhoda Beside the Road
“Oh these? They are hundred naira each,” she said, watching the customer’s expression, the slight furrowing of his forehead as he debated which fruit to buy. Finally, he said, “First,…
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The Age of Friction
I This is what should happen, or rather, what they say happens, when your life starts to wane. It begins with the hairs on the head, because that is the…
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Of Robots and War
For My Parents and ALL My Grandparents. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. The Book of Job 1:21 I can’t be sure of the actual date my…
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The Story is an Egg, or Five Fragments
1. There is a woman who lives in House 86 on Lugard Street, where I once lived. You will find her sitting at the window. The woman lives alone, though…
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Fictionalising History and Home: A Conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta, Canada. An alumnus of the International Writing Program…
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Editorial: The Age of Divergence
Writing is intoxicating, deviant, spiritual. Literature teaches, and literary writers have been known to unlearn, and then to un-teach, and go against the norm. The best art has been known…
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