Call for Submissions | My Books of 2014
For a special end of year issue of the NTLitMag, we invite readers and writers to send in a write-up of between 100 and 600 words titled “My Books of[…]
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July’s Testimony
by Joy Isi Bewaji July in Lagos is hot and sticky. A month of moping frustration and the sun licking at the last gloss of Vaseline on your skin,[…]
Writers Boot Camp comes to Cape Town 24 – 29 November 2014
PRESS RELEASE Writers’ Studio in conjunction with Cape Town Central Library present five days of writing workshops for emerging and established writers. Facilitated by acclaimed writers and teachers, and fueled[…]
Of Nation-Building, Jubilee and Learning Disability
(A review of Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests directed by Segun Adefila for the playwright’s 80th birthday celebrations) by Deji Toye In the play, A Dance[…]
EDITORIAL | Issue 28: Time and Time Again
As it is, that I should be invited to edit a magazine in the month of June, would mean nothing, except that I owe it as a great significance for[…]
Three Poems
By Dami Ajayi Falling in Love Between reality and angst: existential and muddled a second outlasts eternity: vice versa. The flutter of heart valves is mechanical Like falling[…]
Sunday Market
By Ayodeji Matuluko The Sunday market road was jammed with traffic. Construction workers in neon vests and helmets hovered around. Some of them dug away, others observed or drank or[…]
Cupio Dissolvi (I wish to be dissolved)
by Tolu Abrahams Smoke is everywhere. Smoke as thick as fog; smelling as delicious as suya prepared from a dozen cows. The air is hot. Hairs on my hands are[…]
Jude Idada’s Oduduwa: King of the Edos – A Review
By Femi Morgan Jude Idada’s epic play challenge readers to reconsider history. It pries out lessons of good leadership, governance, social and moral values from narratives. It also urges us[…]
