By Samuel A. Betiku With Nigeria’s economy and poverty levels worsening, abductions have become an almost daily occurrence in recent years — Reuters Until now, you...
By Kei Vough Korede In a dream, two bars of soap Were handed to me— One containing melancholy. The other, mirth. A voice instructed me to...
By Daniel Orisaeke On the shoreline, I watch the sun—a halved-cut lemon dip into the sea, language written in the dance of waves there is a...
By Alobu Emmanuel —after Saheed Sunday The day I realised the earth’s misery was when my keyboard’s auto-correct called me a poor earth instead of a...
By Kayode Ayobami say each line two times; one with your right ventricle and the other with the apex of your tongue. Give me the audacity...
By Salami Alimot Temitope I sit on a stool in my room, beside the window, with the sun reflecting towards me, disguised as optimism. I am...
By Abdulbasit Oluwanishola You don’t have to reach the pharynx of the river before you stumble on your people—on their carcasses. water is careless. it even...
By Rafiat Lamidi there was more hope. The first time I peered into the inside of a television, I was lost Everything was sunny pink, I...
By Wisdom Adediji Night nests upon the sky, and the moon, too shy, cowers behind my neighbour’s roof. The rubbles left in silence’s womb burst loose...
Arts Lounge officially announces the call for submission for The 2024 Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature, in memory of Nigerian poet, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ugwuoke, popularly known...