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We Could Have Phrased Goodbye Differently I am having a relationship with a sentence that blooms unsure with summer heat, it asks: what if? Cold mornings, bird-songed early in…

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Poetry

A Language We Do Not Speak | Fatihah Quadri Eniola

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After the sleep of the hibiscus, the world opens its hands to sunshine – Romeo Oriogun In the house where the children now paint white with the consistency of joy,…

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Fiction

Mortality Rings | Rabi’atu Yakubu

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The bulk of my mortality rings are gone! I wish I’d heard the thief last night, I’d have screamed until my neighbours intervened. Rings confirm my productivity and value to…

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Fiction

The Bridge across Inkar Ravine | Luke Beling

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Marlon spent the pre-dawn hours on his knees, praying. He kissed his wife, Rebecca, and their only child, James, before saddling Stalworth, then fitting himself with armour. When the council…

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Essays

Time is Not Your Healer | Muti’ah Badruddeen

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TW: Death by firearms This week, on another inescapable anniversary, I realise I have spent more of my life without my father than I have lived with him. I want…

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Essays

Homecoming | Chinonso Nzeh

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1. To be Igbo was to be unsophisticated. It was to etch the language of shame on your skin. It was to shudder, gritting your teeth and curling your toes…

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Fiction

Soyinka’s Memory | Stephen Embleton

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With acknowledgment from Prof. Wole Soyinka (Aug 2022): – An intriguing literary generic * No thanks to Sörgel for his dreaded curse. I Words are hard. Words break. Memory is a…

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Interviews

Speculative Fiction and the Magic of African Literature: A Conversation with Stephen Embleton

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Stephen was born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and is now a resident in Oxford, United Kingdom, after the 2022 James Currey Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University. His…

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Issues

Meet the Team Credits Editorial: A Testament to Love and Transformation Interview South Africa’s Troubled History, and the Beacon of Redemption: A Conversation with Karen Jennings Fiction A Tiny Seedling…

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PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS & ART Nzube Nlebedim PRODUCTION Nzube Nlebedim COVER POSTER DESIGN Fortrex Design (Peteru Ogunjinrin) COVER IMAGE CREDIT www.pixabay.com

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We Could Have Phrased Goodbye Differently, & We Love in Transit | Kuln’Zu

A Language We Do Not Speak | Fatihah Quadri Eniola

Mortality Rings | Rabi’atu Yakubu

The Bridge across Inkar Ravine | Luke Beling

Time is Not Your Healer | Muti’ah Badruddeen

Homecoming | Chinonso Nzeh

Soyinka’s Memory | Stephen Embleton

Speculative Fiction and the Magic of African Literature: A Conversation with Stephen Embleton

Issue 39 | November 2022

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