God Resides inside a Warumart | Rutendo Chidzodzo
“If I look like you, white like milk, you would help me,” you overhear the old woman mumbling in an accent you are unfamiliar with. “God is watching you, sah.”…
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Today is a Good Day | Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi
Three fleshy women squeezed Dika on the only free bench she could manage until it was time to board the yellow buses. It wasn’t the first time she had spent…
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Deming | Cynthia Chukwuma
They met at the chic café she frequented during the holidays and when she did not have to teach at the center. She always sat on the second floor, by…
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White Men Can’t Write | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The village was in a frenzy. For Kita, the ambitious village in the heart of Alaigbo, this was her date with history, the day one of her sons would fulfill…
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Remembrance | Patrick Ochieng
It starts with a phone call one morning. “Is that Phoebe?” A voice on the other end asks. “Yes? Who is it?” I peer at the clock on my living…
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Black Disappearances | E.C. Osondu
When Jackson White and his wife disappeared from our town, no one really cared, to be honest. They had been the object of our town’s oldest running joke—a black couple…
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Mortality Rings | Rabi’atu Yakubu
The bulk of my mortality rings are gone! I wish I’d heard the thief last night, I’d have screamed until my neighbours intervened. Rings confirm my productivity and value to…
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The Bridge across Inkar Ravine | Luke Beling
Marlon spent the pre-dawn hours on his knees, praying. He kissed his wife, Rebecca, and their only child, James, before saddling Stalworth, then fitting himself with armour. When the council…
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Soyinka’s Memory | Stephen Embleton
With acknowledgment from Prof. Wole Soyinka (Aug 2022): – An intriguing literary generic * No thanks to Sörgel for his dreaded curse. I Words are hard. Words break. Memory is a…
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A Tiny Seedling | Chinonyelum Anyichie
The car stopped in front of a glass door facing the street. The driver opened the trunk. Ifunanya got out. She took out shopping bags, eight of them, all from…
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