by Sunday Akonni Moshood CIVILIAN TO POLICE Hey, non-prestigious friend! You clad in dark uniform attire, Glued to your gluttonous body Like a bird to its feather! As[…]
Category: Lit Mag
Sometime in December
by Nonso Uzozie The breakable plate dropped from Yinka’s hand as she heard the loud explosion. It was too loud and earth-vibrating. She knew it was another explosion because[…]
Editorial #15: Of Limits and Expectations
The writer (and current winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literature) Chika Unigwe was at a Secondary School in Lagos about a week ago, on invitation, to talk to literature students[…]
Love Is Madness & Something Like That
by Emmanuel Iduma This didn’t happen every day. A man and a woman were sitting by themselves beside a gutter.Her head was resting on his shoulders; his arm drew her close[…]
Tax Collectors
By Obinna Udenwe Today is not a market day, so we are not packing brooms and beads into baskets to be taken to the market. I am just sitting[…]
Three Poems
By Richard Ali Hunger Hunger is to reach arms across the sea, there’s a distance Over which words will not keep, excepting formulae Like fish and dream and surrender. I’ve[…]
Editorial #14: The Process, and the Morning After
The coordination of three unrelated thoughts at the right junction on my desk (at the perfect time) led to the selection of the subject of this editorial. Each has to[…]