In Conversation with Muti’ah Badrudeen
Take us through the process of writing Time is Not Your Healer. How easy, or challenging, was it for you working on it? I began working on Time is Not…
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In Conversation with Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
Take us through the process of writing “Landscape of the Partisan.” How easy, or challenging, was it for you working on it? This poem is part of an anthology I…
In Conversation with Rutendo Chidzodzo
Take us through the process of writing God Resides inside a Warumart. How easy, or challenging, was it for you working on it? God Resides inside a Warumart was one…
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…
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.…
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…
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.” …
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.”…
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…