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A wealthy couple crazy in love seems to be leading the perfect life, but nothing is ever perfect, nothing.
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.
Mazpa Ejikem's All His Scents won the June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. “. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”--- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis I If my husband,...
When there was an aeroplane flying over the dusty brown rooftops of Ibadan, I used to wonder where they were headed. I was convinced there must be something more than the basic experience I was having; waking to morning prayers, going to school, following my parents...
Reacting to their win, Nigeria’s Innocent Ilo said, “This means so much to me. I feel grateful, honoured, proud and humbled at the same time. This is one of those moments that make me look back at all the late nights and piles of rejection emails and say, ‘Maybe, just...
Writing reviews as a means to understand the evolution of storytelling across Africa is critical exercise. There has been a lot of internet flurry about these two stories Grace Jones by Irenosen Okojie & Our Girl, Bimpe by Olakunle Ologunro. Irenosen won the AKO...
Desmond Efe-khaese's Crossing The Land was shortlisted for June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. Malith carved out Bor Dinka on the desert’s soil. The four thin lines representing the tribe cut through the ground like a hot knife through butter. It was one of the...
Tolulope Ogedengbe's How We Spend Our Nights in COVID Times was shortlisted for June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. We spend our nightswatching as catastrophe castscaskets of casualties on our earth.we spend our nights brooding aboutthe plague that spreads like...
A Letter to my Father is a poem of pain, violence, and survival. Written in a language free of jargon, it pulls you in with its evocative imagery so that the experience becomes almost real. Hold on death let me kiss the devil's grandson goodbye... Father, On the pages...
Creative Freelance Writerz is pleased to announce the winners of the June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize for Fiction, Non-fiction & Poetry. After a rigorous work of reading all the 153 entries that were sent to the site for the June Freedom magazine and...
Kritika Pandey has emerged the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story, ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes.’ The announcement was made in a first ever online award ceremony. Presenting the award was the Chair of the judging panel, Nii...
CFWriterz is happy to announce the shortlist for the June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize for Fiction, Non-fiction & Poetry.Although, our past prizes had themes for the competition, this year we decided to go themeless, welcoming variety and spontaneity. We...
