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June 2022
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FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Ene Ochayi GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media…
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Issue 38 | June 2022
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: Back to the Roots INTERVIEW Traversing Cultures, Languages, and Islamic Spirituality: A Conversation with Leila Aboulela FICTION Hotel Chatter Akin From Tonight, a Woman POETRY…
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Let Me Tell You How My Father Slowly Turned Me Into a Nervous Wreck | C.S. Hadebe
Son, Maybe it’s a good thing you no longer wish to live with your father. Which child would want to be in a home where a “voetsek!”, or the threat…
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Bad News | Martins Deep
[i] The Dance I let Nigerian Highlife outwill my need to stay in bed. I get up, high on rhythm. I do not know how to call this the quickening…
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A Nigerian Woman Sees Snow for the First Time, & Nightmare Diaries #1: Crack of Spine | Tope Abigail Larayetan
A Nigerian Woman Sees Snow for the First Time There is magic in this blanket of white woven into grass and tar…
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A Veil and a Cross | Fatma Hussein Ibrahim
Joe walked me home from the library, when the road was cleared of men, and the snow gleamed from the dim lights, at every step, we listened to the…
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Ode to Braam | Zama Madinana
braam rises to kiss the unclothed skies leaving park station & joubert park behind yoruba collides with shona in biccard street & a smell of zol rules the…
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Mother’s Euphoria | Olalekan Hussein
Watch a woman loose prayers from the cup of her mouth if it won’t carry the ninety-nine names of Allah – if you won’t see the sweetness of her…
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Silent Psalms | Amoye Favour
I verse in tongue to the chandeliers in the room. Hands clasped, hoping that one of them will wear the strength to chirp back at me. There is something…
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