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  • January 30, 2024
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Publisher Nzube Nlebedim Photographs and Art Tobi Amida Production Nzube Nlebedim Cover Poster Design The Shallow Tales Media Cover Image Credit Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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  • January 30, 2024
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Fiction Editor Nzube Nlebedim Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography  Tobi Amida Graphics and Cover Designs The Shallow Tales…
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Issue 43 | January 2024

  • January 30, 2024
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Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Justice for Sale Interview Renegotiating War and Memory: A Conversation with Emmanuel Iduma Fiction All That You See Here Are Broken Poetry Catharsis December 16…
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Justice for Sale | Editorial

  • January 30, 2024
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00:18am – Today As I sit here on a couch in my brother’s apartment at Iwofe, Port Harcourt, and brood over the current state of things, it hits me; all…
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My Battle with My Skin | Boakye D. Alpha

  • January 30, 2024
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This is a raw and unfiltered capturing of a day in the life of a young man who grapples with profound insecurity about his very, very, very, dark skin. Well,…
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All That You See Here Are Broken | James-Ibe Chinaza

  • January 30, 2024
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In commemoration of me, give your body to my death. For the fourth time, Rukkiyah died in a fire alongside her world. Rukkiyah died. This is all you need to…
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Catharsis | Eniolá Abdulroqeeb Arówólò

  • January 30, 2024
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i do not intend suffering upon this body; yet, on some occasions, i set the butterflies   on fire like one who has developed a propensity for darkness. almost all…
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December 16 or the loss of a good name | Emmanuel GG Yamba

  • January 30, 2024
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Not everything that puts grief into your body will be how ugly a country treats   its people. how bullets flew for years and when it landed, a disease outbreak…
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Biotic | Adesiyan Oluwapelumi

  • January 30, 2024
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The wind hosts a funeral. My heart whitewashed in bathwater. I peel clean at the edge of the butcher’s sabre. My haemorrhage blushes. I can’t discern if the air is…
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Dreams of Midnight Happiness | Irina Tall Novikova

  • January 30, 2024
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Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in…
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