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Issue 28 | July 2020 (PDF)

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Issue 26 | March 2020 (PDF)

Cover art and photographs by Doyin Deji Read and download issue 26 | March 2020 here

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Issue 27 | May 2020

INTERVIEWS Interview with Ella Dein POETRY You A Traveller Tells of Three Scenes The Case of Sun’s Brother How my Mirror Makes my Morning Muse On the Third Cockcrow FICTION…

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SUPPORTERS | ISSUE 28

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Essays

The South African Experience and Protest Poetry: A Reading of Zindzi Mandela’s “I Saw As A Child” and “I Have Tried Hard”

NNADUBE JONATHAN EJIOGU Zindzi’s poems titled “I Saw as a Child” and “I Have Tried Hard,” construct clearly the situation of apartheid in the textual society which, of course, assumes…

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From Soyinka, Achebe to Ojaide: Issues in Nigerian Literature

GANIU MUMIN The literature of Nigeria can be linked to the historical events that form the corpus of experience that Africa and its people encountered. Africa has witnessed many events…

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Fiction

Uli

CHIDINMA OKONTA CONFIDENCE Mama’s dark skin shines. My first love, she smells like coconuts. Slightly built, yet strong, with smooth round face radiating bliss, she is comely with that…

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Ije

OTTIH ONYEDIKACHI The car swerved past me into the street where I stood by its junction. I turned sharply and ran to a side of the street and looked…

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Flowers Were Her Eyes

KOMOLAFE BOLUWATIFE I am going to spend a good percentage of my life in Lagos, the western part of Nigeria. But I share an intense love for Imo, in the…

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