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Examining Racial-Based Extra-Judicial Killings in America: Amadou Diallo to Jacob Blake
ALEXANDER OPICHO The YouTube video clips showing how the white-American policemen shot Jacob Blake, a black man, are very troubling. They conjure all sorts of feelings of distaste; it is…
Before I Jump into Water
OLAJUWON ALHAYTHAM ADEDOKUN If you have ever watched your city burn, Your dreams will learn to count victims. one, you, two, home, three is your love for home.…
Flight 86A
UFUOMA BAKPORHE You know how waiting makes your skin crawl and you hate it. It is why you never wait for your friends to finish dressing up before you…
The White Linen
OGBONNA CHIMEZIE The buzzing sound of the fireflies, the flapping of their wings and the clapping of their tiny legs serenaded the entire atmosphere. I pushed my feet into…
Act of Contrition
OBINNA UDENWE It is Good Friday. Preoccupied with thoughts of having his twin daughters climb his back and ride him like a horse around the sitting room, the man…
In Love with a Dead Man?
ALEX BYANYIKO “I don’t even know why I married you in the first place – not that you’re handsome or even rich,” my mother said, scowling as my father…
A Grave Incident
SULEIMAN AYUBA Every last Saturday of the month, some of the youths of Ungwan Tirka gathered together in the cemetery to level the grass and rid the place of…
Cousins and Cologne
FAVOUR CHUKWUEMEKA The plane would descend in Asaba in about fifteen minutes. This means that we have less than fifteen minutes to be ourselves. The tea trolley finally leaves the…
