Issue 41 | June 2023
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: What It Means to Speak with New Voices Interview Alienation and the Death of Literature: A Conversation with E.C. Osondu Fiction Black Disappearances Remembrance…
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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 Babajide Olusanya Graphics and Cover Designs The Shallow Tales…
What It Means to Speak with New Voices
Amidst the viral, renewed commentaries on social media, and out of it, concerning the ever-supposed “death of literature,” — or cultural influences on them — we find cause each time…
Jakande Roundabout | Nike Onwu
The man in the sticker on the inner rib of the bus promises to soften the cracked palms of our lives— make the people we love love us back, cure…
Ninety-Third Sermon on Strength | Goodnews Karibo
What single thing do you reach out for in the dark hallway of your head steeped in chaos? Do the days unwind through bouts of jagged edges of depression?…
Small Mecca | Mariam Hassan
There is a man, silent as a stare He whispers assalamalaikum through morose breath, eyes galactic, heaven brown Wedged between his teeth is the charm every black boy…
At Luthuli, One Boy Hums the Tune of John Brown’s Song | Frank Njugi
Across a storefront, he peers at the faltering minds in springtime, & hears low chatters of baritone voices, from those who walk with high-handed grace. The boy that holds…
Whitebird | Olusoji Obebe
on a morning, whitebird greets the window of my room with soft sweet songs, from a nearby tree. but my appearance has stirred up a startle. so she flutters, making…
White Men Can’t Write | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The village was in a frenzy. For Kita, the ambitious village in the heart of Alaigbo, this was her date with history, the day one of her sons would fulfill…