Many à nights I haveCut myself open —–I have taken this heart in handCleansed it pure withThe tears of old loversThe ghosts of my dreamsWho have danced on my fleshBruises I cannot hide anymoreMake a mockery of my joy Though nights of mourningHave come and goneThe sunrise always giftsIts promise Continue Reading
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HOME ALONE – By Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
The rain started with a rush of wind which slashed open the pots sitting at the edge of the hut. Their covers were displaced as if the wind had been without food for days. It had been like this in my village, Nkwerre, for weeks. It was June, the beginning Continue Reading
Drinking Garri: by Arinzechukwu Patrick
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 Continue Reading
The Dynamics Of Being Seen As An Outsider – By Omorose Aighewi
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 Continue Reading
Writing About a Broken Boy – By Jerry Agbenu
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 Continue Reading
RANDOM Documentation of Abia State, The National War Museum, Ojukwu’s Bunker, East-central Nigeria.
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 Continue Reading
Two Gorgeous Nigerian Women Singing Dreamy Disco About Women’s rights
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 Continue Reading
Overly burdened women – Cathrine Chidawanyika Makuvise
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 Continue Reading
KNOCK, KNOCK – By Caleb Ajinomoh
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 Continue Reading
Working Girl – By Arinzechukwu Patrick
Backseat yarns about the life of a Lagos runs girl. Wazobia FM threw back Christopher Nusa Ohenhen’s hit song “Dupey” on the car radio as Afo drove around the tarnished roads of mainland Lagos. The rhythmic sound of the old school instrumentals boomed softly from the car speakers and Afo Continue Reading