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you become a bomb of rage ready to explode on the shadow that touches the tits of your sister's innocence. what happens to the girl whose households are flowers in necropolis? I wake up every forenoon to an opened old window greeting my breasts or the express...
Kabiru, I will tell you that I love you when the sun comes out at night. Or when it’s break of dawn but the sun forgets to rise. Come thirtieth February, you shall be my valentine. I will be all yours and I, too, shall call you mine. My waist beads will jingle for you...
On the 18th of July 2021, some students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, named “Eagle Nest Book Club” as a group, gathered somewhere outside the University premises to have their first book club event. The meeting, themed “An African Perspective of Things”, featured...
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Who knew such a time as this would come for writers? The questions of monetization, copyright, and ownership come front and center not just because this is a story that has had a global audience, but the significance of the main player…
Some of the impact stories in the African creative space are often those scarcely discovered. Itanile's hope is that as we connect with some of the tiny dots, we would build a nest for those birds who are free-flying. In an ocean of Brownian art forms, African...
The Itanile team regrets to announce the suspension of the biannual Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. While we thoroughly enjoyed reading the over 60 entries for this edition, we would not be moving forward with a longlist or shortlist; as such, there would be no...
After reading Chimamanda’s recent essay, It Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts, I concluded it shouldn’t be called just an essay.
Biography: Othuke Umukoro—Nigerian poet, playwright & educator—is the winner of the 2018 I Found It Short Story contest organized by Swift Publishers. Born in Olomoro, a small town bounded by untamed rivers, in 1990, Othuke spent most of his childhood fishing...
The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine, Nigerian-based electronic literary magazine announces the release of its 33rd issue. Themed "Loss," this May 2021 edition gathers the best pieces of poetry, fiction, and essays from across the African continent. The issue...
Rémy Ngamije has emerged the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner, African region. The regional winners were announced in a post here on Monday, May 10th. In what the organizers consider a record year of submissions – 6423 entries from 50 Commonwealth countries...
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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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Abebi
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 forefathers
Abebi 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 garri
In seven chapters, the narrator in this expository comic tell stories, story after story of the trending and laughable events on TwitterNg. While it appears to be ‘just for the laughs’, the narrator also exposes readers to deep memories of grief and loss experienced in the street.
The poet takes us on a journey along the palm-fringed beaten earth roads of his childhood home in rural Sierra Leone. Travelling with Ibrahim from boyhood to adulthood, from lonely forest paths to the teeming ghettos of Freetown
The works featured in the Prism issue have told a variety of truths. In May the Thirtieth, the poet writes, “I come from a place / where we are closest to sunrise”. You, the reader, could argue the veracity of this admittance.
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Story of the Storyteller is a collection of stories set in modern day Nigeria. It is a book that talks about the essence of LIFE, the pursuit of Happiness, the agony of Failure and the joy of Success. It is a collection of thoughts that the average African is not allowed to think or talk about.
Over the years, depression in the lives of young adults and adults has drastically increased. Suicide has grown popular, religion has taken over the polity, and culture judges morals. These earth-shattering issues are seldom talked about.
