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When Green Leaves Wither
1. Emeka, Most friendships do not start in the most flattering way. There is no outburst of mirthful laughter or the ravishing communion of a shared experience. Some just start…
This Certain Kind of Blessedness
Say autumn. Say Autumn despite the green in your eyes. Beauty despite daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Ocean Voung, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” It is matriculation…
Restoring Marginalised Voices: A Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji
Author: Akwaeke Emezi Book title: The Death of Vivek Oji Publisher: Riverhead Books Place of publication: New York Year of publication: 2020 Number of pages: 178 Reviewer: Nzube Nlebedim I…
Canivete is Now White
To Sembène Ousmane Translated by Luisa Venturini and revised by Lara Pawson It’s true, yes sir, I had already promised that I was never going to speak any more balderdash,…
The Crazy Shall Inherit the Earth
8 MARCH, 2021 ASO ROCK PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA Who can be powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods, except he first binds…
A Plate of Good Prayers
The burden of convincing every customer to try the roast chicken with its side of Irish potato fries, Italian sauce and boiled plantains is one you embraced with an…
Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Light
(After Dylan Thomas’ Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night) (for my brother, for my grown-up J.who left for heaven, october 16, 2020). chapter 1 sorry to say,…
In the Land that Bleeds
In the land that bleeds we dare not ask the night for dreams Dreams, here, are not berries because They are not sweet, & many We wake the dawn with…
The Man by the Roadside
the man by the roadside greets the world with a song—enmeshed with a spice of pleas. his voice is a bucket of broken things. They all walk past him like…