The Latecomer | Chyna Cassell
i. I removed the curtain just beyond the bar at Babou’s to enter the crimson haze of bodies jiving to psychedelic sounds. Securing my seat between the musicians and the…
The Evil in Me | Sabah Carrim
If you want to convince someone that you’ve locked her up and there’s no escape, is it better to place a bigger padlock on the door instead of a smaller…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…