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Are you a brand owner? Do you have a new book, upcoming literary event? Do you want to show your business to the rest of Africa and the world? ADVERTISE…
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FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim NONFICTION EDITOR Onyedikachi Ottih POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia COPY EDITORS Nzube Nlebedim Chidiebube onye Okohia ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Femi Amuwo Chidiebube onye Okohia Frank Lenz
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Issue 29 | September 2020

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MEET THE TEAM CREDITS EDITORIAL INTERVIEW A Conversation with Ukamaka Olisakwe FICTION Perfect Yahoo Boy Cousins and Cologne A Grave Incident In Love with a Dead Man? Act of Contrition…
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Still Moments

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  FERIAL MOHAMED Busyness is a ghost school. Hurt disappears in traffic but does not vanish. And then a thread swoops through the metal eye. A still moment of missing…
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Sacrament of Soul, or, Baptism as a Foreword to Benediction

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  TAOFEEK AYEYEMI I lift my head, my body shapes into miracle; shakes the river back into itself; watches as my past ripples away into the river. I am cornered…
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Death by Fire

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  BEATON GALAFA There should be a name for death by fire. those people that burn bound to large wooden stakes, run wild with tyres around necks, screaming, or inhale…
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Fragment of Hidden Names

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OJO OLUMIDE EMMANUEL everything you fathom, everything you imagine, are bones/stark dry/ people’s name are bones, too. someone called out, choked. names, here, are over-washed echoes white washed & hidden…
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Sunday Morning & Candlelight

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LUCIUS NDIMELE SUNDAY MORNING Cock crows escort a staggering thought to the church bell. I wake up searching for myself among scattered verses… on the way, a child picked and…
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Refugees’ Testament & In my Family, Grief Keeps Biting our Eyes

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JEREMY T. KARN REFUGEES’ TESTAMENT  “…the Ghanaian National Police raided the camp and took away over 800 women and children to an unknown destination.’’  —Melissa Chea-Annan in Accra, baba said…
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Daughter of Confidence

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AYOOLUWA OLASUPO (IMISI) I should have been the child of an angel, But my mother had no money to buy wings. She was always in her apron, kneading dough on…
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