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Garden of Primroses

By Emmanuel Somtochukwu Ferdinand Like you, I am more scar than flesh.But I have forgiven the knife & I am seeing the world for what it is—A garden. From this balcony, the sun stares, Unflinching, at the darkness crawling towards…

Learning Ikwerre on Duolingo

By Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe Uprooted from the ethnicity of a thousand ancestors, I havefound myself seeking the app again to learn my father’s first tongue.Or perhaps is the app not the father?Algorithms and codes where there was once flesh and…

Maze

By Aishat Yahkub I’ll let my shadows trail behind, while you holdmy untethered form in this blue darksea of stars lapping gently at usas the bored night rows our soulless bodies outto shore & back, with the drifting tidesdoes it…

A dove is a dua

By Rabi Lawal To live like a bumblebee,Is to be calm through the chaos.The world burning like the Djibouti sun.A flame for the child soaked in tomato-Red blood, mistaken for ketchup.Sleep clouds the rim of my weary mind.I love what…