Editorial #9: Of Turtles and Needless Wars
A few days ago, on the way back from campus, I stopped my car almost too late, almost running into some small creature traipsing across the road. It was a[…]
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Editorial #8: Short Works
This week’s issue features excerpts of fiction, some poems, and a non-fiction piece from a writer’s residency. Chris Ihidero, a columnist from Lagos, makes a debut with two poems exploring[…]
Editorial #7: Textual Orientations
I often run into a fascinating interesting dilemma of sorts whenever I read and edit submissions to this magazine. Do I turn “favour” into “favor” as my spell-checker suggests; neighbour[…]
Editorial #6: The Poetry of Simple Words
A while ago, I stumbled on an old email from my friend Uche Peter Umez, the prizewinning author of Sam and the Wallet and a bunch of other publications. In it[…]
Editorial #5: “SPEAKING BACK”: Tributes to a Gem
Living on the campus of the University of Ibadan as a student in the early 2000s, there were three venues of socialization: There were classrooms, there was the Staff Club[…]
Editorial #4: Sandwich and Other Stories
We begin here: sandwich. This is only because Ikhide Ikheloa’s Oporoko Chronicles walks the margins of our sense of taste, humour, family, mischief, and imagination. Far from his equally brilliant and[…]
Editorial #3: The Language of Thought
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[…]
Editorial #2: Of Things Not Seen
Last week, Temie Giwa’s Road to Kigali re-imagined African life as a series of journeys, with a welcome tribute to my poem Be Like The Road. Rwanda’s return to normalcy from[…]
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Editorial #1: First Steps
“In the beginning was the word,” and it has defined everything else. We will return to this sentence time and time again, but for now, it serves as a good[…]