promise in my country is another way of gambling lives | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh
(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) promise is another way of drawing bloodlines. & in my country, we all have a way…
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The Shallow Tales Review
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Transit | Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma
(cover photograph direction: Tobi Amida) I am on the bus from Owerri where I just concluded my undergraduate studies. The driver stalls the engine at Banana Junction in Orlu, where…
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I Call Upon Your Name | Damilola Oyedeji
(cover photograph direction: Victor Akhere) i. Sixth Sense or Does your Mother Know? My clearest memory of you is from the braider shop. It’s the most living form of you…
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Pulling Dawn | Editorial
When Yusuf Olumoh describes silence in his immersive poem as “a language of joy,” he speaks towards a broader smear of postcolonial rage. In his poem, “promise in my country…
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The Soulful Empathy of Niq Mhlongo: In Conversation
Niq Mhlongo is a South African novelist, short story writer, travel journalist, essayist, editor, and educator who graduated from Wits University with a BA degree (African Literature and Political Studies)…
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In Conversation with Chisom Eze
What inspired your poem, and how did you approach its creation? Take us through the writing process. The inspiration behind this poem was drawn from life. The banality of it.…
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In Conversation with Erere Onyeugbo
What inspired the story, and how did you approach its creation? Take us through the writing process. Vanilla Baby began as a response to a flash fiction exercise during the…
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Issue 20 | November 2024
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Of Beginnings and Continuity Interview On the Road Towards African Feminist Literary Identity: A Conversation with Chika Unigwe Fiction The Boy I Used to Love …
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Meet the Team
(photo credit: Pixabay) Guest Fiction Editor Ifeanyichukwu Eze Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography Dagin Abebe Ene Ochayi…
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