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
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PLAYLISTS AND LOVE STORIES: A LYRIC ESSAY by Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
“You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.“—Mark Rufallo —PlaylistsThis Spotify playlist has songs I know & songs I have never heard. This is not a playlist I made, this is my friend’s playlist. These songs I’m listening to are songs she listens to On Continue Reading
Re-Immigration – By Catherine Mwitta
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 Continue Reading
God Lives Here – By Nkem Oyaghire
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 Continue Reading
A Foundational Problem – By Gabrielle Harry
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 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