Issue 42 | November 2023
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Where was a Place? Interview Revisiting Ghosts: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste on Fiction, Ethiopia, and Dark Histories Fiction Deming Today is a Good Day…
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November 2023
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Where Was a Place? | Editorial
Breathe. Take it all in. Allow the air waft through your lungs like the wind commandeering the sails of a ship in search of a direction. Breathe. Heave that sigh.…
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Meet the Team
Fiction Editor Nzube Nlebedim Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography Ofem Ubi Graphics and Cover Designs The Shallow Tales…
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In Search of Home in Dreams of Sand and Waters of Grief: Review of Romeo Oriogun’s “Nomad” | Ejiro Elizabeth Edward
Publisher: Griots Lounge Publishing, Nigeria Year of publication: 2021 “and in leaving/ we seek the unfurling of new wings, the naming/ of new cities, the gift of green rolling hills.” …
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God Resides inside a Warumart | Rutendo Chidzodzo
“If I look like you, white like milk, you would help me,” you overhear the old woman mumbling in an accent you are unfamiliar with. “God is watching you, sah.”…
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Today is a Good Day | Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi
Three fleshy women squeezed Dika on the only free bench she could manage until it was time to board the yellow buses. It wasn’t the first time she had spent…
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Deming | Cynthia Chukwuma
They met at the chic café she frequented during the holidays and when she did not have to teach at the center. She always sat on the second floor, by…
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The Miracle of the Tomb | Kwame Boateng
Weight is the test result wrapped around my ankle, dragging my body into the liquid abyss. My father’s tongue squeezes me into a prayer point and this, too, shatters my…
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To My Little Boy | Ewoenam Akahoho
Listen. the trees do not grow because there is an abundance of growing tied to the waist of the universe Or, the tortoise taking its unhurried, indecisive steps, believing so…
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