by Enit'ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya | Sep 26, 2023 | Nonfiction
(Dedicated to Ilerioluwa Imole Oladimeji Aloba—“MOHBAD”—a sparkling 27-year-old Afro music artiste bullied to death in September, 2023, in Nigeria) There is a tunnel in the human mind. You would think their thoughts would at least reach the bottom of that tunnel. But...
by Eugene Yakubu | Mar 24, 2023 | Nonfiction
Flies buzzed around the grave that evening. I gaped over mourners’ drooping shoulders, my sight blurred, looking from one body to the other and meeting dead eyes. Women pulled hollandaise, dropped banana and cocoyam leaves over the bodies. Yesterday, my kid...
by Tutu Adedoyin | Sep 24, 2021 | Nonfiction, Prose
I am surrounded with friends who love me, but I still feel trapped by this lonely feeling. The mind is like that person who doesn’t want you, but doesn’t want you to be with others. It wraps you up in a cocoon of worry that you become blinded to the love and care...
by Sa'id Sa'ad | Oct 30, 2020 | Nonfiction
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...
by Frances Ogamba. | Oct 26, 2020 | Nonfiction
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...
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