This is a collection of dancing words from a courageous heart experienced in striving both in and out of love. For this heart, the earth is love and everything speaks of it. Everything reeks of love in all its forms; self, kindness, kin-ness, unrequited, intimate, and random. If you have Continue Reading
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Introduction to Identity During The Pandemic
Identity During the Pandemic is an upcoming anthology of African stories that introduces new works by new writers you might have enjoyed previously. In it are some of the most versatile and fascinating Ghanaian and Nigerian writers working hard at their little corners to improve their craft. With an intimate Continue Reading
IDENTITY DURING THE PANDEMIC PRINT ANTHOLOGY – CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
THIS CALL IS CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS. We’re what Time makes us. Our decisions are reactions to the perpetual progression of events. Our milieu is our mold, and milieus are a construction of Time and inter-generational reactions. We like to think that we’re taking actions (which are really just reactions to Continue Reading
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
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