Prose | Itanile

The Evolution and Representation of African Women In Arts

by jonathanoladeji | Mar 8, 2022 | Africalitra Monthly, Prose, Think Piece | 0 |

Coauthors: Precious Ozioma Okeke and Olayemi Mary Adeola For decades, African women have been...

Fallen Roses

by Editor-Itanile | Nov 28, 2020 | Africalitra Monthly, Flash Fiction, Prose | 0 |

The sunny afternoon revealed the faces of sunburnt women walking along the coast of Kisumu. Some...

Comes A Plain Girl

by Michael Emmanuel | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured, Prose | 0 |

She was not beautiful either. Beauty was not the stuff anyways. You’d grown enough to know it was not about beauty or about the soft faces or unending smiles, but you could not tell Mother this.

maybe men are the truest carnivores

by ifeomannewuihe | Jan 30, 2020 | Poetry, Poetry, Prose | 0 |

maybe men are the truest carnivores i want to eat you it is a hot afternoon when he texts...

THE LONG HAUL

by ceylon.kreon | Dec 27, 2019 | Fiction, Prose | 0 |

THE LONG HAUL – In Fiction
When it started, I thought, A lifetime chance it was. A twenty-two-wheel long haul truck with eighteen automobiles atop. Enroute to the capital city.

When You Were Unavailable

by Maereaam | Sep 13, 2019 | Featured, Literated, Prose | 1 |

The fluttering heart,
The comforting silence.
The stares when l thought you weren’t looking.
The smiles to cover up my discomfort each time you caught me staring.

REVIEW: A Triangle of Time and Aging |Ebenezer Agu

by jonathanoladeji | Jul 9, 2019 | Book Reviews, Lit Chatters, Literated, Non-Fiction, Prose, Think Piece | 0 |

There’s something surreal about the way the writer describes the passing of time. I can almost tangibly feel the Grey in the surrounding and scenery he describes.

E.C. Osondu: African Literary Prizes & the Narratives

by jonathanoladeji | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured, Lit Chatters, Literated, News, Prose | 0 |

n this euphoric burst of prose, E.C. Osondu who won the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing with his story “Waiting”, talks about African storytellers