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The woman beside her was chubby and rounded and the wrappa around her waist was hostile to the brown blouse she wore. Her head-tie was faded beige and had fallen off to the ground. Her head was shaking vehemently in rebuke and her body in total rebuff of surrender. The woman kept on bustling in roars; Obara Jesus! Obara Jesus! with her hands striding in very ridiculous rhythm.
When 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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Why do we say Ping-Pong and not pong-ping? Why King Kong and not Kong King? I’m pretty sure you are in awe at this point. It’s a rule you know but aren’t conscious of. According to a BBC article, the rule states: If there are three words then the order has to go I, A,...
COMPLACENCY Here are the times stars stopped by, on those nights when mum told you stories of how beautiful they are, to bare the lid of your anxiety passing quickly in the skies. Visible to you as the curtain flailed, revealing outside from inside. These were the...
I must have dozed off watching the television for when I opened my eyes a bright light danced in front of me. The whole room was spinning round and round. And I could hear sounds like rock and roll musical tracks from the 1980s, but they didn't make sense, had an...
LET ME TELL THIS STORY- A memoirI know there are azure skies not touched and stories not told. Today I seek to rewrite history and perhaps have a feel of the worn out flesh of a sepia past.Doors slam. I am carton-packed in the front with a youth corper. A girl behind...
Collar Workers, Blue & White alike Look forward to Several sips of sunset & a cup of free road. * Fragile. It often falls and Shatters Into go-slow. ** When you see women and men Molt like Tears of Wine & forget tiredness to fight For standing space in red...
Abraham Lincoln defined democracy as: Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Amongst other definitions, this seems to be, by far, the most popular. But with the realities we face today, I'm forced to believe that the people-centric proposition of...
listen to me, heaven is not that far away close your eyes and maybe you will see that heaven is not a grounded place but it is where sunlight meets sea & it is the joy deep in your heart the reality you make of a dream the sanity screaming when all else is mad it...
African Storytelling: A case of 3 Top Journals setting the pace. When we think contemporary, we think current, outside-the-box and maybe a little bit avant-garde with a dash of excitement. All things contemporary forces us to look inwards, to question our beliefs and...
Prof. Pius Adesanmi is one of Africa’s brightest essayists and writers, a Nigerian of note. He has left us a trail to follow, and a goal to pursue.
Ice Age, let’s talk about this fun story of a mammoth family and the end of the world. I woke up one day and decided to write
