Editorial | Issue #27: Of Magic Words
Earlier in the week, poet and scholar Niyi Osundare penned an evocative piece of tribute to the departed Colombian writer Garcia Marquez whose work was described as where “the fantastic[…]
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In Conversation with Bassey Ikpi
by Kola Tubosun I first came across her work on YouTube, a couple of years ago, where she performed a number of hair-raising poems at the now discontinued DefJam series.[…]
Three Poems
by Femi Morgan Spats of Shit If you ask me I have lost my will To write my reportorial My Face is reddened by it My ears echoes[…]
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Farewell to the Magic Muse
By Niyi Osundare Gone, the Magic Muse of Aracataca. In a manner similar to his wondrous tales, I can see him levitating towards the skies, a pen in one hand,[…]
TranceDance
The music came on, she took to the dance floor and as each song was played,and she stripped herself one by one, one stanza after the other, of the[…]
EDITORIAL | Issue #26: Short Works
That this edition is coming a couple of months behind schedule wasn’t planned, but it has confirmed what I had always known: we’re not always in control of time and[…]
Children of the Postcolony
by Babatunde Fagbayibo We are not the midnight’s children for the euphoria of independence only resides in our history books. The physicality of colonialism isn’t our reality; it only exists[…]