ISSUE #19: Caine and Consequences
This issue has been delayed for weeks because of the Caine Prize. We spent the last six weeks before the eventual announcement following the horse race. Each of the shortlisted[…]
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Four Cowries
poems by Ikhide Ikheloa _____________ DM (For you, Dambudzo Marechera, for things that make no sense, because we are afraid…) Bloody December.Ogun prowls the catacombs. And myrmidons of darkness[…]
Flash Fictions
by D.M Aderibigbe ERE AAYO (BOARD GAME) The graveyard beside Tunde’s house along Mabadeje street was a terror to my mother, even though she didn’t know either the colour of the gate[…]
In Conversation with Aaron Bady
by Kola Tubosun My first interaction with Aaron Bady was through the Caine Prize Carnival (now in its third year) in which bloggers give their opinion on Caine Prize shortlisted[…]
Tope Folarin Speaks to NigeriansTalk
Tope Folarin is on the shortlist of this year’s Caine Prize shortlist, along with Elnathan John, Chinelo Okparanta, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Pede Hollist. His short story Miracle, has been reviewed[…]
Essays/Criticism · Fiction · Lit Mag · Literature · Writing
No, Not “America”, but Love – A Review
by Kola Tubosun Here are my thoughts on the final story on the Caine Prize shortlist: Chinelo Okparanta’s America. Thoughts on earlier stories are here: Bayan Layi, Miracle, Foreign Aid and Whispering Trees. _________________ As far as[…]
Culture and Society · Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature
The Fledgling Whispers of a Story – A Review
by Kola Tubosun This week, I discuss my thoughts on Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Whispering Trees, the fourth story on the shortlist of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Many other[…]
Art/Photography · Arts · Culture and Society · Lit Mag
Musing With Victor Ehikhamenor
Since returning to Nigeria from the United States in 2008, Victor Ehikhamenor has worked as a journalist, writer, graphic artist, photographer, and the creative director of 234NEXT newspaper. Of his[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Literature · opinion
The Travails of Logan – A Review of “Foreign Aid”
by Kola Tubosun I began reading this story with trepidation, and a worry that after reading Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi” which moved me in a disturbing yet endearing way, and Tope Folarin’s “Miracle”,[…]