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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/03/08

On love XXVIII | Salimah Valiani | Poetry

Note: Publication of this submission, a tribute to Winnie Mandela, is timed to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. How many ways can a heart be broken? (1) departure finality staggering beauty betrayal rejection being barred from continuing to make History Mama Winnie your death (like your life) […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/27

Sonnets for the Person I Was Last Night | Akpa Arinzechukwu | Poetry

Sonnet III after Kazim Ali The family inside at the dinner table is no longer mine. It’s been three years since I opened that door & lost a tooth. Everyone ate silence; mum avoided looking at my lips – Our hands on the cold glass minutes before thunder quivered. I am in the news […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/27

What If We Didn’t Sin? | Ogbu Eme | Fiction

The oracle of Griddock had warned that Zakari would be the one to lead the entire village to Lucifer’s Gate, and any time the oracle spoke it was imminent. His prophecies didn’t come without a way out, though. This time he’d carved it in the flesh of an old woman, just below her left […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/27

Victims of 1967 | Ndifreke George | Fiction

Content Warning: This story contains depictions of physical and sexual violence. It was typical of Thursdays to be lazy and boring for me unless mum was off at work, then we would stay at home together and do all the gossips. She had left for work that morning almost before I could see her. […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/19

Genesis | Kharys Laue | Poetry

I The beginning contains a seed of the end. II A man stands at the foot of the mountain. Naked, head bowed. Face rectangular and rough and red as a brick. Russet beard cut square at the jaw. Delicate sheath of skin, hardly sufficient for survival. He gazes without vision at his feet, bare […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/18

The Home Manual | Ayodeji Oluwaseyi Isaac | Fiction

You will be coming to my house for the first time, pal, and the following are words to live by: When the bus drops you off at the bus stop, you will find yourself cutting the sharp corner leading into Alapere Estate and at this point, it’ll be wise to do yourself a large […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/18

Abiku | Olowogboyega Olumuyiwa | Fiction

The tour guide had begun by saying, “Traditional African art is characterized by fear, that’s why most of our statues are ugly. European art is characterized by beauty.” The rest of the class giggled as they moved on; a happy, laughing lot trailing the tour guide. I remained transfixed, staring at carved figures as […]

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Features, Stories and Poems, Submission 2019/02/18

10 December 2005 | Immaculata Abba | Poetry

What happens when your brother who loves that song “and when you sleep I’ll find my way into your dreams…” dies? What does the song become? A tombstone? A portrait? A simulacrum? or the elegy itself? * I still remember grief hot in our blood The way it burnt like we had never seen […]

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