Issue 20 | November 2024
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Of Beginnings and Continuity Interview On the Road Towards African Feminist Literary Identity: A Conversation with Chika Unigwe Fiction The Boy I Used to Love …
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Meet the Team
(photo credit: Pixabay) Guest Fiction Editor Ifeanyichukwu Eze Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography Dagin Abebe Ene Ochayi…
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Vanilla Baby | Erere Onyeugbo
(cover photograph direction: Dagim Abebe) You are at the age of performing desirability. But it is Nneka, your roommate who primes herself like a broiler pumped with feed, eager for…
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Admission | Robert Nersesian
(cover photograph direction: Dagim Abebe) Characters Father Amadou – early forties, Black African Father Stephen – early forties, Caucasian American Mrs. Dalton – early fifties, Caucasian American Mr. Dalton –…
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The Towel of our Tongues | Chisom Eze
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) the haircut I must have been Samson in a past life. I bristle each time steel greets the half-moon of my scalp, and this unholy…
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Alone | Alobu Emmanuel
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) — for the waif child. I see you poor puppy the way you sniff the dump the pile of abandoned used-to-be treasures seeking for…
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Formation of a Face | Madhu Kailas
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) Through dense mist, semi-settled and semi-adrift— sedimentation of lorn sentiments line the inner wall of my heart. An imprint carries cracks but does not…
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Windows | Steven Ihde
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) when the windows open, as lashes part round and round turns the washing machine, dusty dreams rinsed away from memory. flickering on lens as dust…
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Moirai | Sarah Adeyemo
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) Tonight, I moisturise my ankles with tenderness & crawl into my past through the mouth of memories. An ocean of tears is not hyperbole…
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