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Issue 43 | January 2024
Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Justice for Sale Interview Renegotiating War and Memory: A Conversation with Emmanuel Iduma Fiction All That You See Here Are Broken Poetry Catharsis December 16…
Justice for Sale | Editorial
00:18am – Today As I sit here on a couch in my brother’s apartment at Iwofe, Port Harcourt, and brood over the current state of things, it hits me; all…
My Battle with My Skin | Boakye D. Alpha
This is a raw and unfiltered capturing of a day in the life of a young man who grapples with profound insecurity about his very, very, very, dark skin. Well,…
All That You See Here Are Broken | James-Ibe Chinaza
In commemoration of me, give your body to my death. For the fourth time, Rukkiyah died in a fire alongside her world. Rukkiyah died. This is all you need to…
Catharsis | Eniolá Abdulroqeeb Arówólò
i do not intend suffering upon this body; yet, on some occasions, i set the butterflies on fire like one who has developed a propensity for darkness. almost all…
December 16 or the loss of a good name | Emmanuel GG Yamba
Not everything that puts grief into your body will be how ugly a country treats its people. how bullets flew for years and when it landed, a disease outbreak…
Biotic | Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
The wind hosts a funeral. My heart whitewashed in bathwater. I peel clean at the edge of the butcher’s sabre. My haemorrhage blushes. I can’t discern if the air is…
Dreams of Midnight Happiness | Irina Tall Novikova
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in…
Renegotiating War and Memory: A Conversation with Emmanuel Iduma
Born in Nigeria in 1989, Iduma studied law at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and received his MFA in art criticism and writing from the School of Visual Arts,…