by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 31, 2020 | Gist Corner
New Year resolutions have become so clichéd it gets a roll-my-eyes kind of response wheneverit is mentioned. Because cliché is where nuance is not. Boring. Yet the narrator in Yiyun li’sWhere Reason Ends, gives us a nuanced perspective on cliché: “What if life could...
by Ókólí Stephen Nonso | Dec 25, 2020 | Poems
Suppose our bones are parables, too old for the body to carry, or call them catalogs of broken cartilage, waiting to be stitched. Yesterday, under the withered guava tree, where my umbilical cord is buried,my grandmother spent the night stitching her bones like torn...
by Ókólí Stephen Nonso | Dec 25, 2020 | Poems
Too often, our cries for help are silent ones.Unheard. Unheeded. -Emily Believe it or not—depression is a veil closing our eyes. If you’ve walked through the long night of grief,you’ll see the ghost that lives in your head. You’ll see shadows hiding...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 23, 2020 | Gist Corner
Images sourced from Schlosspost and Wikipedia Dear fans of Temi Oh and Suyi Davies,We are excited to announce that your two favourite writers are among the eighteen contributors of the forthcoming anthology, Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda.This anthology features...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 22, 2020 | Gist Corner
Booker Prize winner, Bernardine Evaristo, has become the first black woman to be appointed as the President of Rose Brufold College. Bernardine Evaristo, who graduated from Rose Bruford in1982, said, “I think it’s really good to have a black woman as the head of a...
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