In Conversation with Chisom Eze
What inspired your poem, and how did you approach its creation? Take us through the writing process. The inspiration behind this poem was drawn from life. The banality of it.…
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In Conversation with Erere Onyeugbo
What inspired the story, and how did you approach its creation? Take us through the writing process. Vanilla Baby began as a response to a flash fiction exercise during the…
Issue 20 | November 2024
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Of Beginnings and Continuity Interview On the Road Towards African Feminist Literary Identity: A Conversation with Chika Unigwe Fiction The Boy I Used to Love …
Meet the Team
(photo credit: Pixabay) Guest Fiction Editor Ifeanyichukwu Eze Poetry Editor Chidiebube onye Okohia Nonfiction Editor Orji Victor Ebubechukwu Editorial Assistant Uche Anaekwe Art and Photography Dagin Abebe Ene Ochayi…
Vanilla Baby | Erere Onyeugbo
(cover photograph direction: Dagim Abebe) You are at the age of performing desirability. But it is Nneka, your roommate who primes herself like a broiler pumped with feed, eager for…
Admission | Robert Nersesian
(cover photograph direction: Dagim Abebe) Characters Father Amadou – early forties, Black African Father Stephen – early forties, Caucasian American Mrs. Dalton – early fifties, Caucasian American Mr. Dalton –…
The Towel of our Tongues | Chisom Eze
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) the haircut I must have been Samson in a past life. I bristle each time steel greets the half-moon of my scalp, and this unholy…
Alone | Alobu Emmanuel
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) — for the waif child. I see you poor puppy the way you sniff the dump the pile of abandoned used-to-be treasures seeking for…
Formation of a Face | Madhu Kailas
(cover photograph direction: Ene Ochayi) Through dense mist, semi-settled and semi-adrift— sedimentation of lorn sentiments line the inner wall of my heart. An imprint carries cracks but does not pulverise…