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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”

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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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Essays

From Soyinka, Achebe to Ojaide: Issues in Nigerian Literature

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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

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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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Fiction

Ije

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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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Fiction

Flowers Were Her Eyes

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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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Poetry

On the Third Cockcrow

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ABDULAZEEZ SHOMADE a strange sound scoots into my roomshakes my dreamy bed. my eyes twinkles before going back to sleep.again, the sound strikes. this time i’m half-awake struggling to…

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Poetry

How My Mirror Makes My Morning Muse

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ADESINA AJALA most mornings, i forget to look myself in the mirror—does a boy concern himself with his looks?—forget to let the mirror lure me back into myself. forget…

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Poetry

THE CASE OF SUN’S BROTHER

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ABIGAIL OSORO Like an owl in the deep, dark nightThe ill feeling glares at me,It flows my way, unending, a river,It washes over me as I traverse the landOblivious…

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Poetry

A Traveller Tells of Three Scenes

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IFESINACHI NWADIKE Scene 1: Of a Car Burning; Vom! It went upIn crimson flamesRed-blooded tonguesLicked its bluish bodyTo the chagrin of empty extinguishers. Scene 2: Of Tyre Explosion; Gboa!…

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Poetry

You

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ELLA DEIN With you, time means nothing and the space between us vanishesYour delicate soul takes me to a world that makes reality feel likefictionAnd my mind elopes into…

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