Issue #21: Never Ending Circles
In 2003, as an undergraduate in Ibadan, I’d been moved to write a series of poems under the working title Stoning the Devil to deal with my conundrum with a war[…]
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In Service
By Kayode Odumboni SCENE 1 The light falls on Chiamaka packing her belongings which consisted mostly of her clothing. Damilotun remains seated on the mattress that lies on the right[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Forgotten Heroes & Disappearing Acts
by Dami Ajayi I Once upon a time. I happened on a book. And I fell in love with the book. I borrow my staccato sentences from this rather quaint[…]
Issue #20: Of Literature in Retrieval
Sitting together one evening in Ibadan, discussing translation and the progress of African language technology, Tunde Adegbola, one of the pioneers in the field and fellow participant in the language[…]
Living by the Future
by Nnorom Azuonye There were songs inside his head and songs in the air outside Dartford Station; that cruel mix of screeching tyres, chuckles of train engines, and wailing buggied[…]
A Letter to Dumi
(A story of two old lovers meeting again after 15years) By Ayodele Olofintuade Do you remember the night we first met? It was at your birthday party, you were[…]
Five Poems by Elnathan John
DINNER TIME Do we sometimes bask in our delusions, And become tourists in lands that never were? -Anon. I am not fooled By this cool wind In my face I[…]