Removing the Fuel Subsidy
The queues are back at the filling stations; and our lived experience has taken a turn for the worse; a few fires have started. Yet, this is but a seasonal[…]
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[…]
Essays/Criticism · Lit Mag · Review
Book Review: Lagos 2060
by Dami Ajayi . In 2010, eight writers gathered in a workshop to create futuristic stories, scenario and events about Lagos. They leaped fifty years forward. Lagos_2060 is the product[…]
All is Well
By Mafoya Dossoumon Fufu with palm nut soup and grasscutter, jollof rice with fried plantain and chicken, nothing stops hunger. It lurks, never far away. When he was sixteen years[…]
The Researcher
It started as a curious thought. Wondering, what made a person insane, at what point was a person declared to be mad? Was it a gradual descent or perhaps an[…]
Leadership…from thought to action (3)
This is the final part of the leadership write-up. The history of Nigeria is painted, in most parts by our political leadership. From the time of our independence, the[…]
The Tragedy of Jonathan’s Pulpit Politics – Salisu Suleiman
That politicking for the 2015 presidential elections has started in earnest, despite the protestations of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is not news. That President Goodluck Jonathan and his[…]