Interview with Ella Dein
Writer, Ella Dein, lets us into her space in this interview. She is the author of And Then I Met You, a collection of narrative poetry and prose. Enjoy!…
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LETTER TO RISIKATU
MELONY AKPOGHENE TO RISI Pain is not just the twinge you feel when you prick your finger with the needle as you stitch up the holes in your shirts. It…
WHEN A MAN FINDS A SHELL
NZUBE NLEBEDIM Young man walks lazily, kicking the soft sand underneath his bare foot. The morning fog lies thick overhead. He looks up with dreary eyes. The fog is beautiful,…
A STRANGE CASE OF HAPPENSTANCE
EMMANUEL MICHAEL Tomorrow, it will be six months since you moved out of the house and began a new story. You do not look like it, like the gaunt man…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…