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November 2022

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Issue 39 | November 2022

  • November 29, 2022
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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: A Testament to Love and Transformation Interview South Africa’s Troubled History, and the Beacon of Redemption: A Conversation with Karen Jennings Fiction A Tiny Seedling…
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Credits

  • November 29, 2022
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PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS & ART Nzube Nlebedim PRODUCTION Nzube Nlebedim COVER POSTER DESIGN Fortrex Design (Peteru Ogunjinrin) COVER IMAGE CREDIT www.pixabay.com
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Meet the Team

  • November 29, 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 Nzube Nlebedim GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media…
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Editorial: A Testament to Love and Transformation

  • November 29, 2022
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You might agree with me that it is enviable that we have reached the height we are on now. It’s our 39th issue, and it has sure been a long…
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Sand the Eternal, or the End Unimaginable?: A Commentary on Sarpong Osei Asamoah’s Allusive Splendour in “Sand” | Ancci

  • November 29, 2022
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Sand the Eternal, or the End Unimaginable?: A Commentary on Sarpong Osei Asamoah’s Allusive Splendour in “Sand”
Title: Sand Author: S. Asamoah Publication Date: July, 2020 Publisher: Lunaris Review Sarpong Osei Asamoah’s “Sand” alludes to the Bible throughout the treatment of its subject in which the preordained…
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Before the Meal – Coming Alive to Food | Wangũi wa Kamonji

  • November 29, 2022
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Before the Meal
Bless us oh lord, and these thy gifts Which we are about to receive From your bounty Through Christ our Lord I learnt this prayer at a young age in…
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Threnodies for Black Flowerboys | Tobun Pelumi

  • November 29, 2022
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Threnodies for Black Flowerboys
           —for boys cremated, till they become                                       an inscription of graveyard I. the boy next door clenches his libido within his mouth & gurgles it down his…
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I will grow you into a poem | Babatunde Waliyullah Adesokan

  • November 29, 2022
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I will grow you into a poem
hoping you seed into a mimosa that opens to only my touch   hoping I could fetch from your shy fern a goblin full of honey   hoping your soil…
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Es-Cha-Ton | Muhammed Sanni Olowonjoyin

  • November 29, 2022
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Muhammed Sanni Olowonjoyin
Aftermath   His limbs forget how to connect With the language of his spine, So they crawl as he feeds the road With the taste of his sweat, & Blood…
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The Doorpost | Innocent Timothy Rindap

  • November 29, 2022
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Innocent Timothy Rindap
I was standing aside under a shade─ watching.   And saw her fling another litre of frowning words at him again.   This time, he recoiled from her swishing temper.…
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