POLI-THIEVE-TIANS
IKECHUKWU IWUAGWU Draw closer, curious ears Draw closer, curious minds Cast a gaze upon the breed of poli-thiefs borne by Mama Africa’s suturesAn arid literary piece, awaiting the drizzle of…
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THERE’S A DEAD RAT
SHERIFF OGUNDELE There’s a dead raton the street the people are pullingup masks instead of shroudsturning up the raised hell with the sound ofgenerators all passing it byon their way…
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF OGUNDELE
Sheriff Ogundele INTERVIEWER: NZUBE NLEBEDIM NN: There have been disputes on the necessity of parsing literature as a practice and form into different geographical divisions. What’s your position on African…
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Loyola and the Home of Flourishing Faunae
CHIDIEBUBE ONYE OKOHIA “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” I stepped into the wilderness when I arrived Loyola compound along Old Ife Road, Agodi,…
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Africa’s Politicisation of Slavery and the Derivatives of Racism: A Case Study of George Floyd
ALEXANDER OPICHO George Floyd, a black man of fourty-six years, and a father of two children in Minneapolis, attempted to con a tobacco and wine store owner by trying to…
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ETCHINGS ON A CARVED SKIN
OKOLO CHINUA My heart holds many locked rooms within, rooms I cannot open I walk the stairs of my memories each time I close my eyes It’s soaked, dripping… A…
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On Black Street: Waterholes & Wildlife
MARTINS DEEP caution: a photographer must tread gingerly filming only with lenses positioned at the corner of his eyes. on Black Street, the walls are cartridge papers bearing paintings of…
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BLIND EYES
ENITAN ABDULTAWAB In a sick relief I guess Would I sit back and watch it all? A pointed stick that would pierce one’s eyes Is to be avoided while it…
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THIS SON OF A FOREIGN GOD
ADEPOJU ISAIAH GBENGA (I) Dear Son, When the gods asked me who you were, I said; You are like a hawk that flew to the land of doves And when…
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STILL BORN
IKECHUKWU IWUAGWU It is of futility a foresight To relate the Africa’s giant future site Her rind, six decades to be very soon Had witnessed shades of pogroms under the…
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