This week’s offerings, short, traverse a realm of experimentations. In Teju Cole’s Kadara Kekeke, the writer’s pithy twitter-based news-based literature take on new outlooks in the clothes of its local tongue. A recent twitter quasi-protest to bring Yoruba into the global arena of the social media platform has tweeters from Nigeria writing in Yoruba for one day. More on that [...]

by Benson Eluma  MANY A FINE poem is inspired by that complex of feelings called love. To make no bones about my subject, the love I speak of is simply the sexual kind. Not the mindless love throbbing in the heart of the soldier as he bayonets his way through a thicket of enemies, anthem mingling with battle cry on [...]

A husband’s murder of his wife brings into sharp focus our acceptance of the impunity of domestic violence and sometimes the preference of that for the sake of keeping a loveless marriage going to appease the needs for tradition and societal norms.

I remember getting to work extremely early  a couple of months ago and reading an article from a very infuriated wife that her husband wasn’t allowing her to take care of responsibilities in their home.  Now, I am sure many of you are wondering what I am on about now.  Let me start first by telling her story.   Ms A [...]