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Sunday Market

  • June 21, 2014

By Ayodeji Matuluko The Sunday market road was jammed with traffic. Construction workers in neon vests and helmets hovered around. Some of them dug away, others observed or drank or[…]

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Chaos

  • April 26, 2014

By Bomi Ehimony   I was hungry; I had not eaten in days. My stomach kept on reminding me that I was soon going to die: making increasingly loud noises, like[…]

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What Matters is the Way We Are

  • February 1, 2014

by Ayodele Morocco-Clarke Dear Emotan, For years, I have written this letter numerous times, initially in my head and subsequently on paper. All my previous efforts have failed, for I[…]

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Killjoys

  • January 31, 2014

By Isaac Attah Ogezi Interlocked, their breaths came in gasps. The loudspeaker voice in the distance as if from another world, extorting loving one’s neighbours as oneself, the portrait of[…]

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Witness

  • January 31, 2014

by Jude Dibia Write down what happened, the officer was saying to me. He gave me a pen and worn police report sheet which, earlier before, he had made me[…]

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JAMB

  • November 9, 2013

by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo   You are peering at the fading lines of the old Economics notebook. You know it is not the lines of the note written in your[…]

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Living by the Future

  • August 11, 2013

by Nnorom Azuonye There were songs inside his head and songs in the air outside Dartford Station; that cruel mix of screeching tyres, chuckles of train engines, and wailing buggied[…]

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High Rise

  • March 9, 2013

By Okwuje Israel Chukwuemeka   “Merci! Not Messi,”Mademoiselle Jaiyeoba said, scowling, creases rumpling the bridge of her nose. It was ninth period, at one thirty. The afternoon sun was smouldering.[…]

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Sometime in December

  • March 8, 2013

by Nonso Uzozie     The breakable plate dropped from Yinka’s hand as she heard the loud explosion.  It was too loud and earth-vibrating. She knew it was another explosion because[…]