When it Comes, Will it Come Without Warning?
By A. Igoni Barrett The morning he slapped his mother, Dimié Abrakasa was preparing to leave for school when she rose from bed, drank the last of the gin he[…]
Category: Fiction
Drowning in Ashes
by Adaeze Ibechukwu ‘How and where do I begin?’ I ask my younger brother as he opens to the middle page of his long note exercise book and rips off[…]
Fiction · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Cellphone Conversation with Papalolo
by Ikhide Ikheloa – Ring! Ring!! Ring!!! – Hello! Who is that? – Papa! It is me! Your son! – I say who is that? – It is me! Your[…]
Why Atidé is Talking to a Coin
By Anja Choon When Atidé[1], who is called Eddy by his school mates in his small town near Edinburgh, visited Yorùbáland during Easter vacation, he was told that his uncle[…]
The Lizard
by Olumide Abimbola He had been watching his son since he started the game. The boy had been chasing a red-head lizard for about thirty minutes, and now he had[…]
Room for Discussion: HOAYS
Without a doubt, Chimamanda Adichie’s bestselling book “Half of a Yellow Sun” is a remarkable work detailing one of the most defining times in Nigerian history with a story that[…]