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The writers in this issue have taken the decision to shape the dialogue of the day by continuing to write. In doing so, these writers have opened new doors to all sorts of conversations about everyday living. They have also given us stories that make us gasp delightedly, cry and laugh. Such was my experience reading them. Through the stories, I was reminded of our shared humanity. I was also prompted to remember our complexities as humans. In the end, I found myself gaining fresh perspectives.
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“The More You Look” is a compendium of very beautifully written African plays designed to shoot you to the moon and possibly leave you stranded there.
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The Death of a Man My sister can look at a man and see ifthe shadow of his death colours his face.The folds of his wrinkles he earned from the sun,black like his hair, blacker than his teeth—broken,blacker than the hole where he digs for goldfor a man not black like...
the sun will try to walk your body into fired clay as you scribble your emptiness in the pain of a dying dog. the night turns a name into a soft prayer. bodies float in streams in search of fear. silence is also broken by thoughts of men. you drink your griefs...
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 did not return my stare. It just was not...
Note to the boy sitting on a grave There are times when darkness becomes too heavy, & what do we do when the night outweighs us? We trade our bodies for some beams of light, & watch our soul shed off some shades of grief. I was ten when I knew how people die:...
Ikeogu Oke, is Dead! His book “the Heresiad” won the 2017, NLNG Prize for literature. His win came after the prose writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
A panel will review the 2018 Dec. Freedom Magazine Award. Michael Tolulope Emmanuel, novelist, poet and short fiction writer
Writing prompts are a good head start. Maybe you are too bored or stuck in your writing. We got some oil for the wheels. This collection of prompts
Michael Emmanuel has emerged winner of the Quramo Writer’s Prize 2018 for his manuscript, Running Waters. With his win, he will receive a N1 million cash prize as well as a publishing contract with Quramo Publishing. The winner was announced at the award...
Prize of #100,000 goes to a single top literary piece from any genre; fiction, poetry and nonfiction. SOBCA Academy sponsors this year’s award prize.
My clear favourite here was Last Days by Amynah Dauda, which starts as a reflective piece on deadlines, before slowly spinning out to cover terminal illness, ambition, infidelity and parental relationships. – James Holden
