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The Covenant of Melancholy: Editorial

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All I ever wanted was a world without maps writes Michael Ondaatje in his intimate meditation on the human condition. In his magnum opus, The English Patient, Ondaatje wrote in…
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Pulling Dawn | Editorial

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When Yusuf Olumoh describes silence in his immersive poem as “a language of joy,” he speaks towards a broader smear of postcolonial rage. In his poem, “promise in my country…
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Of Beginnings and Continuity | Editorial

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Fresh Pepper soup is a staple meal in Nigeria. Like the name goes, it is soup suffused with pepper—lots of it. The entire story around pepper soup is not about…
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