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Features, Lit Scene, Series January 30, 2017

Dear Genevieve, Find Your Space (pt. 3) | by Pa Ikhide

How are you? How are the kids? They are running you ragged, I bet. I was young once and scared, like you. I had great, young, rambunctious kids like you do. They say that there is no working manual for being a parent. It is a wondrous thing, parenting, but once you get over the […]

Dear Genevieve, Find Your Voice (pt. 2) | by Pa Ikhide

How are you? What are you up to? I am going back and reading the old classics from the African Writers Series and Fontana books, you know, African writers that I read in the seventies. Many of them are now out of print, but you can still find old copies in used bookstores and online. […]

Memoirs of a Lagos Wedding Planner | Episode 1: The Almost Wedding | by Tolulope Popoola

Memoirs of a Lagos Wedding Planner is a flash-fiction series of 8 stories. Sample the first episode and click HERE to enjoy the rest of the story. *** My client and I had been planning this wedding for months. It was going to be a big affair, attended by the elite in society. Pearl had been […]

Dear Genevieve | It’s All in the Narrative (pt.1) | By Pa Ikhide

Dear Genevieve, There is not a shortage of advice to writers. Young African writers like you are beneficiaries of unctuous sermons on what, how and where to write, most of it patronizing. Well, writing is like parenting or doing the dishes. You simply roll up your sleeves and do it. Write, just write, is what […]

Iseyin I and II | by Olanrewaju Tajudeen | Poetry | Enter Naija: The Book of Places

“…beauty exudes from the lips of your hills. Bare earth is a living brown: trees, seeds, shrubs & greenery on your dusty chest.” *** Iseyin I I You’re the tale of contrasting colours; your sky is blue and your fields green, whites are of cows and cassava flakes. II I can hear song birds […]

My Feminism | Remembering to Scream | By Wana Udobang

I don’t remember the first time my father hit my mother. But I often remember my brother’s hands muzzling my mouth shut whilst my screaming the words ‘leave my mummy alone’ would ease its way through the spaces between his fingers. Like that Saturday morning when my sister’s friend and I were doing jumping jacks […]

Nwangene | Nzube Ifechukwu | Nonfiction

CREEK ROAD IS a long tarred street in Fegge, the tar dust-brown with a thin overlay of sand from decades of trampling by variegated soles. Fegge is a district in the south of Onitsha—the headquarters of Onitsha South LGA—known for laissez-faire parents who raise streetwise children. Onitsha is a city of dwellers most of whom […]

New City | By Arinze Ifeakandu | Non-Fiction| Enter Naija: The Book of Places

“The sky in Sabon Gari is blue and high, like all of Kano’s skies. It is beautiful so long as your eyes remain on the heavens. Everything else strives.” On October 2, we published Enter Naija: The Book of Places, an anthology of writing–non-fiction, poetry, memoir, fiction, commentary–photography and digital art about places in […]