Tax Collectors
By Obinna Udenwe Today is not a market day, so we are not packing brooms and beads into baskets to be taken to the market. I am just sitting[…]
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Three Poems
By Richard Ali Hunger Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve[…]
Editorial #14: The Process, and the Morning After
The coordination of three unrelated thoughts at the right junction on my desk (at the perfect time) led to the selection of the subject of this editorial. Each has to[…]
Culture and Society · Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature · Non-fiction
10 Questions for Mafoya
Mafoya Doussoumon is the thirty-one year old author of a fascinating new book of essays titled African Expectations (Available on Amazon.com). I caught up with him for a one-one-one. _______ Tell[…]
Three Places
by Peter Akinlabi Oshun Who now remembers the dance from which she emerged, with dual prize of royalty and sadness? Maybe the king-dancer himself, towering above all memory, a[…]
Lit Mag · Non-fiction · Poetry
What the Wayfarer Wished to Become
by Emmanuel Iduma Failing to daydream a life of transcendence, a certain wayfarer found himself at the mercy of his ambitions.1 The first goal he set for himself was to[…]