Salted to the Root | Lisa Sammoh
Look there, the last brick fell and toppled over pebbled ground, ‘That last sound, was it a rumble or a quake?’ rolled over peony stems, plucked daffodils matured through last…
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A Haibun, and Resettlement | Karen Jennings
A Haibun I never travel now. Go nowhere but the grocery store, the supermarket, pharmacy. Mornings and afternoons, I walk the dogs, see the same bald man, a garbage collector,…
A Tiny Seedling | Chinonyelum Anyichie
The car stopped in front of a glass door facing the street. The driver opened the trunk. Ifunanya got out. She took out shopping bags, eight of them, all from…
South Africa’s Troubled History and the Beacon of Redemption: A Conversation with Karen Jennings
Karen Jennings is a South African author, based at LEAP, Stellenbosch University. Her debut novel, Finding Soutbek, was shortlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for African Fiction. In 2014 her short story collection, Away from the Dead,…
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FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Ene Ochayi GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media…
Issue 38 | June 2022
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL: Back to the Roots INTERVIEW Traversing Cultures, Languages, and Islamic Spirituality: A Conversation with Leila Aboulela FICTION Hotel Chatter Akin From Tonight, a Woman POETRY…
Let Me Tell You How My Father Slowly Turned Me Into a Nervous Wreck | C.S. Hadebe
Son, Maybe it’s a good thing you no longer wish to live with your father. Which child would want to be in a home where a “voetsek!”, or the threat…
Bad News | Martins Deep
[i] The Dance I let Nigerian Highlife outwill my need to stay in bed. I get up, high on rhythm. I do not know how to call this the quickening…
A Nigerian Woman Sees Snow for the First Time, & Nightmare Diaries #1: Crack of Spine | Tope Abigail Larayetan
A Nigerian Woman Sees Snow for the First Time There is magic in this blanket of white woven into grass and tar…