by Osahon Oka | Feb 5, 2021 | Poems
What if as we are planning for hostilities/two womenare roving the streets/calling for their children/and here they are/with us/their will and soul/their gunhandsstained with blood?/What if the bomb we kick in the teeth pulls these women apart from their lovers/and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Feb 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Caleb Femi, Inua Ellams, and Mark Gevisser are on the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize longlist.The Rathbones Folio Prize was founded in 2014 by London-based publishers, The Folio Society. The prize was initiated to reward “the best new work of...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Feb 3, 2021 | Gist Corner
The Program is administered by Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women.Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women is a blog started by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Malaka Grant. It aims to “seek out, support and amplify feminist content creators and their own...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Feb 3, 2021 | Gist Corner
Musa Okwonga has a new novel titled, In The End, It Was All About Love. The novel is based on Okwonga’s experiences living in Berlin. The novel is published by Rough Trade Books.Here is a summary of the book from its publisher, Rough Trade Books:“The narrator...
by Osahon Oka | Feb 3, 2021 | Poems
DSC carries too much of this memory.It is as if I wade through the weight of water & then/there/a memory made flesh—a secondary school mate/older now/more flesh around the waist/ less laughter around the lips/ a child by his sidethen i realise how far I have...
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