THE WILLOW WIDOW
ABUDU-BHADMUS OMOLABAKE My little window has become my companion The only proof there is a world beyond my deep agony: The green field contrasting the dark hole I’m in. My…
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WALLS OF LONGING
SAI SABOUKE Today, again, I wake up — a truck Contemplating which highway to take. Though aware I am that all the roads Lead nowhere, my feet, carved To re-walk…
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A BUS RIDE HOME
MURTHADHO SOHFIYYAH It was the 19th of March 2020, three weeks since Nigeria confirmed its first case. With only twelve confirmed cases at the time, the panic and fear were…
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I Wrote on the Blackboard About the Moon Halved by the Arms of God
CHINUA EZENWA-OHAETO And how the death of anything is first being born. My sister taught me that everything around us is yet inside of us. One afternoon, I held the…
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THE BET SLIP
SAMUEL MONYE The first time my father spoke to me was at a bet shop. I turned from the Vanguard Newspaper I was reading to meet his stare. My heart…
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INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL MONYE
“I never expected to win the Quramo Writer’s Prize.” — Samuel Monye Interviewer: Nzube Nlebedim NN: In his review of your novel, Toni Kan describes your work as “a juvenile…
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