CHIDINMA OKONTA CONFIDENCE Mama’s dark skin shines. My first love, she smells like coconuts. Slightly built, yet strong, with smooth round face radiating bliss, she is comely with that…

  OTTIH ONYEDIKACHI The car swerved past me into the street where I stood by its junction. I turned sharply and ran to a side of the street and looked…

KOMOLAFE BOLUWATIFE I am going to spend a good percentage of my life in Lagos, the western part of Nigeria. But I share an intense love for Imo, in the…

RACHAEL IYOKHO I am angry! Do you know what I bring to the table? Without me, there is no Afang. I shrink tumours. I boost blood levels. I am a…

MELONY AKPOGHENE TO RISI Pain is not just the twinge you feel when you prick your finger with the needle as you stitch up the holes in your shirts. It…

NZUBE NLEBEDIM Young man walks lazily, kicking the soft sand underneath his bare foot. The morning fog lies thick overhead. He looks up with dreary eyes. The fog is beautiful,…

EMMANUEL MICHAEL Tomorrow, it will be six months since you moved out of the house and began a new story. You do not look like it, like the gaunt man…

MURTHADHO SOHFIYYAH It was the 19th of March 2020, three weeks since Nigeria confirmed its first case. With only twelve confirmed cases at the time, the panic and fear were…

EVANSON NJUKI Gb slowly approached the orange throne, her heart racing. Imagine  a hush  falling over the royal Hp republic, in IBM  palace;  a silence  so  profound  that she  could …