Remembrance | Patrick Ochieng
It starts with a phone call one morning. “Is that Phoebe?” A voice on the other end asks. “Yes? Who is it?” I peer at the clock on my living…
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Black Disappearances | E.C. Osondu
When Jackson White and his wife disappeared from our town, no one really cared, to be honest. They had been the object of our town’s oldest running joke—a black couple…
Alienation and the Death of Literature: A Conversation with E.C. Osondu
E.C. Osondu was born in Nigeria. He won the 2009 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, and he received his MFA from Syracuse University. He currently teaches at Providence College…
Issue 40 | January 2023
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Do You Not Remember? Interview Speculative Fiction and the Magic of African Literature: A Conversation with Stephen Embleton Fiction The Bridge across Inkar Ravine Soyinka’s…
Meet the Team
FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Oluwatobiloba Amida GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media…
Do You Not Remember?
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.” — Aeschylus The question, “Don’t you remember?” is an easy route to memory. But whether we ask this question or not, we must…
The Slide | Omidire Joshua Idowu
a brother slides back into the mire. thunder strikes. teeth clack; tongues wiggle. he stands naked at the eye of today’s sermon’s vortex. this is what the lamb’s wife does…
Blue Moon on the Tongue | Emman Usman Shehu
A blue moon is not found in a mouth that harbours a tongue restlessly showcasing the voice it orchestrates where there are ears or not within a listening distance.…
Lagos Boys, Rat Race | Adedokun Ibrahim Anwar
In Lagos, bodies roam with worries on their tails like predators after their prey. In hawking sachets of water, every sweat that drops traces a line back to the…