My father had asked to be cremated instead of buried. In his will, he detailed that his ashes were to be whisked across one of our estates in Tanzania. The last wish of a dead man is hard to say no to, even for my mother. Though she longed to […]
Month: August 2020
My mother says we all carry God with us. He is everywhere. We are His temple and He lives in us. When we defile the temple, He steps out, he is there but outside our bodies with his back turned to us.I always liked the idea of God stepping out […]
The meat pie at the Crunchies on Marian is an apology. The crust is too dry and the filling is three-quarters mushy overcooked potato and one-quarter questionable beef. Affiong takes another bite and washes it down with her lukewarm Fanta as she checks her phone for the twelfth time this […]
The first thing Njideka saw when she opened her eyes was her children standing in front of her with wide eyes and mouths bent in a frown. They had been standing there and staring until the sheer force of their sadness woke Njideka up from her deep slumber. Olachi, Njideka’s […]
Omorose Aighewi is a photographer that is currently located in Lesotho. Aighewi’s work is comprised mostly of street and documentary work. Her street work captures the eccentric, innovative, and beautiful people that surround her. On her first visit since she was 6 years old, Aighewi wanted to capture the dynamics of […]
How do you console a boy who has lost his innocence to an event buried in guilt? do you bring a mirror to show him that change is the altar on which he sacrificed his boyhood to understand his body. his people & his country? do you build him a […]
Abia State was formed in 1991 from what was considered old Imo. Bordered by Ebonyi and Enugu to the north, Akwa-Ibom to the east/southeast, Rivers to the south-southwest, and Imo and Anambra to the west. Abia is known for its areas of oil-palm bush, a tropical rain forest in its […]
The Lijadu sisters saw the future, so much trouble in the streets. There are a lot of introspections going on in the African music scene right now and the youth today are going back to the pioneers. They want to know who originated certain rhythmic and melodic variations. Who started […]
I love Twitter. It’s such a mixing pot of opinions, some I agree with and some I baulk at. I make different sounds of disgust, surprise, glee etc because this is how I react to reading things. My face just won’t make the effort. So there I was scrolling down […]
KNOCK, KNOCK I never quite learned to knock. It had little to do with upbringing, or courtesy, or even a lack of respect for peoples’ privacies; I simply didn’t learn to knock. Maybe it had something to do with my peculiar left-handedness. Older people told you what hand to […]
