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By dawn, a few of Tez’ Mu’s assumptions had been proven correct, earning him his escorts’ begrudging respect. Merchants using the Mirin route were now being allowed into the city, though the Keolyor had doubled security. That was an opportunity, one he intended to use.
Poetry, in many instances, resists the desire to be confined to a single definition. Ask a magazine editor, a poet, and a critic what poetry is, and their responses will differ—despite their frequent intimacy with the form. One might argue that a poem is meant to be experienced, not defined. Yet often, the reader encountering a work of poetry seeks both experience and comprehension. They don’t just want to feel the poem; they want to understand it—to walk away satisfied with that experience because they “have a rational understanding of that experience,” as Yvor Winters put it.
I had just stepped out of my compound that morning when this beautiful metallic grey jeep drove past. A woman was driving. She had her kids in the back. At that time, l was crazy about jeeps, especially when it was a woman behind the wheels. I have always wanted to...
The days following isolation... MONTH 1 World seers and sorcerers lost this in their visions. One man sat in a lab somewhere. One man did a series of researches, trials and errors until he got it right. Then he blew droplets of his invention into the air and the...
CFWriterz (Itanile) is delighted to announce its September writing workshop themed Curating Your Writing Voice (in a creative world full of noise), which will be facilitated by Nigerian Poet Adebayo Kolawole Samuel and South African Author Resoketswe Manenzhe. Find...
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...
