Stories of Home
Ìyàwó mi Awèlewá (To my
I know I should not be meddling with similes and figurative expressions, So as not
Faruk Alfe’s She Is My Abiku was shortlisted for the December 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary
Brother Replies(Submission after liberation, 1994)Dear SiphoThy fret paper silk in ink has arrivedSealed in the
A Letter to my Father is a poem of pain, violence, and survival. Written in
We learnt to takerefuge in the talesspoken to us byour father’s fathers. We take comfortin
I’d like to be a butterflyAnd flutter into your roomTell you how the wind blowsCause
I take a walk at dawn, when the dew falls Bless me father for I
