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?
Perdition by Aisha Oredola
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₦0.00When we invited writers for this Issue, submissions of any theme or genre were welcomed, but especially so for works that explore the concept of journeys through the lenses of travels and tours―what it means to travel, to seek out new places. To write a story or a poem or an essay, writes Garth Greenwell, is to make a claim about what we find beautiful, about what moves us, to reveal a vision of the world, which the writers in this Issue have done with their work.
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I’m pleased to say that it felt like home journeying to the birth of this book. Of course home is where the “art” is. This chapbook contains 20 poems scribed from the very core of my heart.
“Dancing With The Tides” sends a message or talks about the need to being in equilibrium with the happenings in the world and not to be too attached to one specifically.
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₦1,000.00Add to basketAbebi
Cries of a baby
Tears of Iya Abebi
Evil some people call life
Isn’t it darkness that brought her to life?At birth she takes a sweet full
Colostrum it is called
Nigeria, I call Abebi
Iya, I call her forefathersAbebi did not grow like others
When a father drinks the milk,
of the child
Doesn’t the child’s belly get bigger?Abebi did not take in
Enough milk while growing,
even though, filled with milk and honey
Abebi is now weaned on garriQuick View
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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.
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