Nigeria Speaks
after Patricia Smith By Ayokunle Falomo Didn’t your teachers teach you to ask good questions before starting any venture at all? What good is archaeology, anyway? May I ask you about poetry—yours, what good is it? It’s been 10 years…
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Amphibians
By Jide Badmus Wednesday morning, I needed Noah’s boat to navigate Bank road. I didn’t know Ikoyi too could be this vulnerable when it rains. Some days, we are fishes floating in dry aquariums, enthusiasts, drowning in saltwater ambitions. Other…
The Event
By Timi Sanni I arrived at this world already primed for pain—the hurt, persistent, primal, poised. Born on the rubble in the wake of the war,I was no different from that childbirthed in the aftermath of the world’s worst divorce.…
Cachexia
In response to Billy Collins’ ‘The First Night’ By Chisom Okafor I am holding unto the past like a monochrome photographto my chest, listening to your heartbeat against mine in this untouched dark You say something about the pastnot holding water…
Saturdays in Port Harcourt
By Tope A Larayetan K’ene onye keni ye n’uwais how the weekend calls us in —how the neighbors tell usMommy would show up cradlingbrooms, packers, and mops.Her fingers buried in a plastic bowlof water waiting to wreakdroplets on our exposed…
what moves now, lord?
by tosin gbogi what does the sea bring back to me now what does it wash ashore in its nude song of crossing and what floats on its frothing face, butterflying with the tide . . . the light of…
White Blanket
By Animashaun Ameen R said my deepest flaw is wanting to save everything and, in reply, I let myself break down and asked him to save me. He didn’t. The whole world is on fire so this is the wrong…
Teaching my father how to fish
By Olatunde Osinaike Getting to know him in the interim, and the gulf of prepositions describing the relative he has been to the two younger than me. Around, against, beyond, concerning, without, notwith- standing: all of the ways we have…
Opinion: Release Nnamdi Kanu now and declare Biafra
By Ijeoma Osuji The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a pro-self-government group in Nigeria that seeks to restore the Republic of Biafra, which seceded from Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War but later rejoined the country. IPOB was founded…
Man wanted for reprisal attacks after killings in church now at large
In a shocking turn of events, Ken Samuel and several others have been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police in Benin City for their alleged roles in the bloody reprisal attacks that took place on 25th July 2005, after his…