Night I have thought these importunate ruins painting your face brighter as something sinuous, something that is capable of rousing a broken ghost to the will of flesh […]
Category: Lit Mag
Three Nigerian Poets Make the Nigerian Prize Shortlist – Press Release
16th September, 2013 PRESS RELEASE Port-Harcourt FINAL SHORTLIST OF THREE FOR 2013 EDITION OF THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE The final shortlist of three writers has been approved by the Advisory Board[…]
Analysis · General · Non-fiction · Politics · Review
Thoughts on Nasir El-Rufai’s “The Accidental Public Servant”
Paperback and kindle editions available on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Publication Date: February 2013 ISBN-10: 1481967401 ISBN-13: 978-1481967402 “…to put on record my version of events…” is[…]
Issue #21: Never Ending Circles
In 2003, as an undergraduate in Ibadan, I’d been moved to write a series of poems under the working title Stoning the Devil to deal with my conundrum with a war[…]
In Service
By Kayode Odumboni SCENE 1 The light falls on Chiamaka packing her belongings which consisted mostly of her clothing. Damilotun remains seated on the mattress that lies on the right[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Non-fiction
Forgotten Heroes & Disappearing Acts
by Dami Ajayi I Once upon a time. I happened on a book. And I fell in love with the book. I borrow my staccato sentences from this rather quaint[…]
Issue #20: Of Literature in Retrieval
Sitting together one evening in Ibadan, discussing translation and the progress of African language technology, Tunde Adegbola, one of the pioneers in the field and fellow participant in the language[…]