A Rehearsal of Shame
The people in your city are inflated by a need to slash and burn, and you are already a dress...
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Category: Fiction
The Spirit of St. Louis by Alex Nderitu
The melanin queen was perched on a bar stool, Checking me out from head to shoe. Her eyes were...
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Death Porn 101: A Practical Guide to Clout-chasing and Exploitative Sympathy
Fatima Okhuosami’s Death Porn 101: A Practical Guide to Clout chasing and Exploitative...
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YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN YOU ARE GONE
She reminds you of Bisola.
Your fingers turn into a fist and your smirk turns to a scowl.
How dare she?
Perdition by Aisha Oredola
Perdition: You see avarice turn into a pool and jump in hastily. Have you forgotten that even too much of sweetness brings forth dire consequences?
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The Silent Plea
The Silent Plea was the second-place winner of the June Collins Elesiro Literary Prize &...
Read MoreWALK TO FREEDOM (#Dec2018)
I loved my mother. She was my father’s typical script, playing roles that were directed only by patriarchy. My mother fitted perfectly into his constrained perception of what a woman should be; the type that says ‘you can only...
Read MoreThe Uprising #Dec2018
I remember the first time I saw my father hit my mother. We were seated around the dining table having breakfast. My parents were arguing about something, their voices low, when suddenly, my father leaped out of his chair and in...
Read MoreFASARA #dec2018
Nana was telling us the story of the sun and the moon today. Rana and Wata. Nana’s Hausa was spoken like she was the first student of the gods of the kanem Bornu empire. Even when she was wrong, it was difficult to tell...
Read MoreYou Were Made For Better Things #Dec2018
Does it still hurt? Does it still hurt? Did it...
Read MoreThe Growth #Dec2018
I eased myself gently into the old, brown sofa in the sitting room, my hands on my sore back. My dirty white eyes settled on the aged brown clock hanging obediently on the wall. The seconds hand moved round and round but...
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