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The Shallow Tales Review announces poet, Temani Nkalolang as issue 31 poetry guest editor

We are very excited and privileged to announce the amazing award-winning Motswana poet, Temani Nkalolang, as poetry guest editor for the 31st issue of The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine. Temani…

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Issues

Issue 30 | November 2020

MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL INTERVIEW POETRY Warri of No Worries Sadness in My Bone Love Aftermath I Want to Sleep Nigeria Away Some Verses of Wisdom & Tonight, I…

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Meet the Team

FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Onyedikachi Ottih GUEST POETRY EDITOR Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto COPY EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Tosin Taiwo Doyin Deji

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Credits

PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART Tosin Taiwo (Facebook: Tosin Taiwo; Instagram: _tos.n; Twitter: _tos_n) Doyin Deji (Twitter: @doyin_deji; IG: @doyin.deji; Facebook: Doyin Deji) PRODUCTION Nzube Nlebedim ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Ogunjirin Peter,…

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Arts & Photography

Bloodline of Questions

Martins Deep (he/him) is a Nigerian poet, photographer, & and student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is deeply passionate about documenting muffled stories of the African experience in his…

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Arts & Photography

From the Album — Remains of a Broken Plate

Ishaq Adekunle is a Nigerian writer and visual artist. Recently, he has been trying to learn about the state of well being and reasoning among the African children, their good…

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Essays

Music, Football and Cockfights: A Kenyan Childhood

‘Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to bliss.’ – Lord Baden Powell I was born in Nyeri County, Kenya, on William Shakespeare’s birthday. I didn’t know I shared a birthday with the…

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Essays

Memories as Crevices Entombed with Loss

It is the kind of evening where the air is unmoving and frozen by heat. The absence of your creaking fan reminds you that there has been no power for…

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Fiction

In the Throes

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Fiction

Juju is Orange

Chukwuokike, sometimes, Fada doesn’t help us quickly. He asks us to believe a lot, and we don’t see much. Medical center doesn’t heal us quickly, either. Some things seem a…

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