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The Healer
Original price was: ₦350.00.₦300.00Current price is: ₦300.00. Sold By : Oluwaseyi Faith
Sale! Original price was: ₦350.00.₦300.00Current price is: ₦300.00.Add to basketThe healer is a scriptural historical fiction novel showing two families in a seemingly hopeless situation.
What happens when the only one who could help seemed to procrastinate the healing of one for another?
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A ROSE FOR MY COUNTRY by Olabisi Abiodun Akinwale
Original price was: ₦500.00.₦200.00Current price is: ₦200.00.2 items soldSold By : aniekan
Sale! Original price was: ₦500.00.₦200.00Current price is: ₦200.00.2 items soldAdd to basket‘A Rose For My Country’ is a collection of 18 beautiful poems on recent and contemporary massacres, bombings and rioting in Nigeria from 1967 till date.
The collection is a wakeup call to affected and non-affected Nigerians as they may just wake up one morning and find their skin ripped off from their body.It’s also an eye opener on how far the rate of massacres and bombings has immensely increased in Nigeria from late 1960s till date with concrete records of places, time and dates where these happened with deep metaphors describing the scenes, and how victims were victimized.
A rose for my country is a collection of poems every Nigerian should lay hands on, so as not to be left in the dark, waiting for light, sometimes we need to fit in God’s shoes to create them.
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₦0.001 item soldA young boy from a family of four is faced with a difficult family dilemma just as every other member of his family is. His father had decided to add to
the family in a way that posed a threat to other members of the family; and while his mum seemed helpless, the boy alongside his brother was
determined to distort his father’s intended move. The young boy had a scary dream that morning and that only compounded his worry. He suddenly realized that the situation at hand was more complex than he could have imagined it to be.(Downloads - 95)
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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?
Harriet Anena: I Question Politics through Poetry
Harriet Anena is a Ugandan author, poet, and journalist. She is the author of a collection of poems, A Nation In Labour, published in 2015. Anena worked with the Daily Monitor newspaper as a reporter, sub-editor, and deputy chief sub-editor from 2009 to September...
Sweetness: Winners for the June 2019 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize.
If you ever had a story bubbling in your heart like water from a spring. The sweetness rolling over your head onto your naked skin, like in a shower at midday. If the sound of the rushing dialogues, the gripping plots, the mournful tears of a victim and the...
A Billion Hellos
Like a billion frozen hellos awaiting the warm blanket of a hi, I've been kin to the foxtrot of silence, static, & the assaulting images of lapping currents. It is the carcass of dawn and the curious croaks of a raven floods this silence, perhaps like me it longs...
The Shortlist – The cfwriterz June 2019 Freedom Magazine & Prize
The shortlist for the CFWriterz June Freedom Magazine for the Collins Elesiro Prize has been announced. The theme for the June 2019 Magazine was “Sweetness”, adapted from a poetry collection by Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu. This year’s prize comes with a hundred thousand...
SynCity NG Anthology Release
Syncity NG has finally released their Anniversary Anthology + competition. After publishing the longlist and shortlist, winning stories have emerged. The judges for the anthology were Leye Adenle and Mukoma Ngugi and Tendia Huchu wrote the Introduction. The anthology...
REVIEW: A Triangle of Time and Aging |Ebenezer Agu
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
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
The Freedom Magazine & Collins Elesiro Literary Prize, June 2019.
This year’s prize comes with a hundred thousand naira (N100,000) and digital publishing deal with cfwriterz for the top 3 entries.