Wear it on your head if it doesn’t fit your body

Wear it on your head if it doesn’t fit your body

Illustration by Adejonwo Kizito and Dantala Ali We are children of different clothes but one body. Divided more or less into halves; there are those who dress in silence and move separately with guns; and those who emulate their fabrics with genuine hearts, easily...
Blood on the streets of Lagos

Blood on the streets of Lagos

Blood Boiled from hours of sitting under the sun Boiled from anger against police brutality Boiled from the shielded stem whose only desire is to tilt towards light Beloved Nigeria Whose youth evaporate from the scaly hands of policemen, And the dirty palms of...
Chimamanda Adichie Releases New Short Story

Chimamanda Adichie Releases New Short Story

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has released a new short story titled, “Zikora.” This is her official piece of fiction seven years after her third novel, Americanah. The short story centers on the life of a Nigerian lawyer living in Washington DC who was abandoned by her...
The Valley of Memories

The Valley of Memories

To live with another man’s wounds is to wake at midnights with a searing pain and listen to the man breathe and exist. I am going to my uncle, the man who has been dead for seventy years and has inhabited my body for twenty-three odd years. I am visiting his one-time...