The Bomber Drowned THE BOMBER TOO DROWNED, in his ripple Among the heads, at the belt’s attunement to rage, at the last dead chant– HEAD TO THE SCHEDULED FEAST ON[…]
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Editorial #12: Orality and Slices of Nigerian Literary History
One of the major points Chinua Achebe harped on at the beginning of his now famous memoir There Was A Country, common as well to most of his major literary interventions,[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Ogundare Foyanmun, My Uncle the Poet-Chieftain: In Memoriam
By Peter Akinlabi Let’s begin with the space, for he was a man of immense spatial presence. Big, tall and fearfully dark, he occupied space like he owned it. Language[…]
Conversation With Rotimi Babatunde
Rotimi Babatunde is the winner of the 2012 Caine Prize for Writing, with the short story Bombay Republic. LitMag editor Kola Tubosun caught up with him recently. Here is the interview. _______________[…]
Between Her Lips by Uche Peter Umez
Do you like what you see? a sparkly voice asked. He glanced around, thinking the question was directed to someone behind him. Then he saw a pair of brown eyes[…]
Editorial #11: Four Writers
In this issue, I present work by four writers from Nigeria. Richard Ali is the editor of the Nigerian Sentinel Magazine, and the author of a new work of fiction[…]
The Cabals
By Kolade Ajayi. The cabals are not only the Lawanis; They are well bribed out of it. The cabals are not only those who are entrapped, Though they await[…]