Filtrate of Things Unseen
(after Samuel A. Adeyemi’s Applying Psalms 121 to a Gentile) Few years ago, I commenced diluting my emotions, separating every constituents once a part of my being. I x-ray my…
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Meditate & Skyfall
MEDITATE Eyes close. Inside my mind is a permanent place of dawn. A sanctuary where I come to heal From the trauma of breathing. There are giant…
When You Cook a Mirror
you carry guilt like a stray bullet on your neck & with every memory of that day, pain replaces the colour of the element that finds a track beneath your…
Gnashing of Teeth Sea to Shining Sea: Afrikaners Battled Africans & This Happens to be on Offer Today
GNASHING OF TEETH SEA TO SHINING SEA: AFRIKANERS BATTLED AFRICANS 1. Across The Sea Beautiful Sea, Cataracts and Broken Teeth Are Scarified in Accra. (with thanks to the…
An Endless Pursuit of a Perfect World
An Endless Pursuit of a Perfect World: A CONVERSATION WITH RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a graduate of the University of Ibadan. His chapbook, No Home In This…
The Shallow Tales Review announces African writer, Orji Victor Ebubechukwu, as issue 32 non-fiction guest editor
We are very excited to announce African short story writer, Orji Victor Ebubechukwu, as non-fiction guest editor for the 32nd issue of The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine. Orji Victor…
Issue 31 | January 2021
MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL INTERVIEW Repositioning African Literature: a Conversation with Nnamdi Oguike FICTION A Party for Madam The Babylon Pit A Hole in the Air Burning Low Bibife…
Meet the Team
FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Adesuwa Igbinawan GUEST POETRY EDITOR Temani Nkalolang COPY EDITORS Nzube Nlebedim & Adesuwa Igbinawan ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Anjorin Feranmi Ene Ochayi