The Bogobiri Chronicles
Dec 20. Morning pages. Bogobiri open mic last night with Victoria. When we leave to head back to the mainland from Ikoyi at 10:15pm, she mentions that the security[…]
Category: Lit Mag
Issue #24: Curtain Call 2013
In the last couple of days, I have received requests from readers and contributors to revisit the most popular issue we published in 2013. It is an intervention that I’ve[…]
Situation Highlife
by Dami Ajayi I Awe, jaw-slackening awe, was what Iyinolu experienced when he walked into his first Lagos banquet in an old batik shirt, faded denim jeans and a borrowed[…]
The Sun Pours Libation
By Geosi Gyasi at the burial grounds man confronts the earth and a chthonic power vociferate to the world under; a convocation of elders pick themselves up long[…]
Feline Nature
This came from a conversation I was having with a friend. I joked that I wanted to finish my Phd early and start working, or the alternative was to[…]
Chiens
They encircled me like a pack of wolves protecting their territory. “Growl”, the smallest of them snared and I was startled that a sound so loud could come from a[…]
Editorial | Issue #23: African Roar
Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor W. Hartmann are both prose and poetry writers from Zimbabwe. For a number of years, they have individually contributed to the literary dialogue of their country[…]
Questions for Emmanuel Sigauke
Emmanuel Sigauke is a Zimbabwean writer based in Sacramento , California where he teaches English at Cosumnes River College, and Creative Writing (on a part-time basis). He is the sole[…]
Reincarnation
by Kelechi Njoku Nnanna’s grandfather had died, fifteen years before he was born, of some illness that left him wasted to the bone. At that time there was no photograph[…]