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A Clairvoyant Peep into the Future of a Nation Driving Forward but Looking Backwards: Review of ‘If My Country Had a Jury’

A Clairvoyant Peep into the Future of a Nation Driving Forward but Looking Backwards: Review of ‘If My Country Had a Jury’

By Michael Olatunbosun The book, If My Country Had a Jury is a legal thriller. It is a futuristic work about the Nigeria of 2050. It is a 13-chapter, 381-page fiction written by Olabisi Ajakaiye and published in 2024 by Winepress. Olabisi Ajakaiye obtained his first, second and third degrees in Urban and Regional Planning. ...

Literature & Arts

2025 Gbemisola Adeoti Prize: Adesiyan, Joshua, Folarin named winners at ANA-OAU Festival

Literature & Arts

Charcoal skies over Yelwa

Home Beyond Borders: NaijaPoetryFest unites art and advocacy on World Refugee Day

Literature & Arts

Snapshots from Oguta Lake, 2025

Literature & Arts

fractures like worn beads

NaijaPoetryFest set to mark World Refugee Day with powerful performances, conversations

NaijaPoetryFest set to mark World Refugee Day with powerful performances, conversations

NaijaPoetryFest, in collaboration with Alliance Française, is hosting a one-of-a-kind event to commemorate World Refugee Day. Titled Home Beyond Borders: Displacement, Resilience, and Rebuilding in Nigeria, the programme is scheduled for the 17th of July 2025 at 2pm and promises a deeply engaging blend of art, poetry, music, and critical discussion. This year’s theme speaks ...

Literature & Arts

Iteration

Iteration

By Sa'ada Isa that at the end of loss, loss may begin again— Samuel Adeyemi There is something about healing thatloss doesn't agree with.All my dead ones have found a wayto keep dying. I too am learningthat the wound never really closes.It only mutates into something small,beautiful enough to permit the passage of laughter.But the ...

The Medical Poet hosts maiden edition of ‘Meet & Speak’

The Medical Poet hosts maiden edition of ‘Meet & Speak’

Last Easter Monday, Lagos played host to a unique fusion of art and spirituality as The Medical Poet, Nwachukwu Olusegun Nwachukwu, welcomed poets and poetry enthusiasts to the inaugural edition of Meet & Speak in Lekki Phase 1. Speaking during the gathering, Nwachukwu shared his vision for the initiative: “My aim is to see the ...

Literature & Arts

Feral

Feral

By Muhammad M Ubandoma The first time a bullet fissured your mother—it did not ask. It split the night openon a wreckage, lit soft with flame. The air shapeshiftingwith dread. Body, sizzling where skin used to be.Your mother poured her voice into the world—it spilled into your fingersbefore you knew what fingers were for.Crescendo. Her ...

Self-Etymology

Self-Etymology

by Agboola Tariq A. The lore goes: what a child bears is whatBecomes of him. At my birth ceremonyI was dorned in a garment of namesFather straps me with an epithetForeign to his tongue and my body الطريق إلى الحقيقة “the way to the truth” But the truth is, I have long departed that pathThe ...

Simultaneous Equation w\Bliss as a False Variable

Simultaneous Equation w\Bliss as a False Variable

By Muheez Olawale x + y = bloom — equation 1x - y = gloom — equation 2 Using Substitution Methodx = bloom - y — equation 3 Substitute bliss - y for x in equation 2 where bloom = blissx - y = gloombloom - y - y = gloombloom -2y = gloom-2y = ...

Marvellous, Osahon, Fatihah win 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize

Marvellous, Osahon, Fatihah win 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize

Poetry Sango-Ota has named Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Osahon Oka, and Fatihah Quadri Eniola winners of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry. The prize, currently worth ₦250,000, celebrates poems published in Poetry Sango-Ota within the calendar year. With this announcement, Marvellous, with his captivating poem "O Cidade", wins the first prize and ₦125,000. “My God!! This ...

Garden of Primroses

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 it.Isn't this the hardest form of love? To watch something else take your place—& you, ...

Learning Ikwerre on Duolingo

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 blood.And the tongue is still a tongue,even from a mouth, even from the dark screen ...

Noirledge snags ’Jọba Ọ̀jẹ̀labí’s poetry debut, as Ipadeola, Familoni, others praise collection

Noirledge snags ’Jọba Ọ̀jẹ̀labí’s poetry debut, as Ipadeola, Familoni, others praise collection

...’Joba "brings a fresh linguistic energy" — Dami Ajayi...A masterful collection of transformation and self-discovery — Adedayo Agarau Noirledge Publishing is set to publish The Ones Before You, the highly anticipated debut poetry collection by ’Jọba Ọ̀jẹ̀labí, on 7 April 2025. Ahead of its publication, Ọ̀jẹ̀labí debut has already earned glowing praise from some of ...

Maze

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 bother you when you hear the whispers?the water will come to claim you, I know& ...

Naija Poetry Fest gifts cash prizes to emerging Poets, Creatives call out publishing houses, Govt to invest in poetry

Naija Poetry Fest gifts cash prizes to emerging Poets, Creatives call out publishing houses, Govt to invest in poetry

By Omolola Dede Adeyanju In accordance with the theme for this year's world poetry day: “Poetry in motion, wheeling round the world”. The Naija Poetry Fest has taken its wheels to identifying distinguished and unique creatives in the world of poetry as well as encouraging emerging Poets with cash prizes. The festival which was held ...

A dove is a dua

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 I do to myself,Unfurl and curl back into becoming.My sisters’ draped skirts nearly thick enoughTo ...

Osundare, Bingham-Risher, other leading poets hail Adedayo Agarau’s The Years of Blood

Osundare, Bingham-Risher, other leading poets hail Adedayo Agarau’s The Years of Blood

…He writes with exquisite sensitivity — Aracelis Girmay…As Michael Aderibigbe dubs Stegner Fellow a “visionary” Adedayo Agarau’s debut full-length poetry collection, The Years of Blood, has received high praise from respected voices in contemporary world literature. Celebrated Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare described the collection as “a haunting horrorscape,” while acclaimed poets Remica Bingham-Risher, Aracelis Girmay, ...

Literature & Arts

Evolution

Evolution

By Rachael Madakan Dandi Nighttime under the moonlight, I speak of agingbonds. It begins with lust or love. The theory ofthe unloved unfurled after a backlash. A womancalls the world to hear her out. Her voice, musicin the core of chaos. Song splashing like spindlein the sea, the tide ebbing through the dissonance.Outside, the breeze ...

Warrior

Warrior

By JL Maikaho I hear your heart the echoofdoors shutting out your armour everytear a salt lake stuck in the city that saysbe strong then gives you a red card for breakingwalls listen I too have wailedabyss theytake until you can't give anymoreif songs could break walls I'd tell you to singbut it took more ...

Moremi Review, Jakky Bankong-Obi host International Women’s Day poetry reading

Moremi Review, Jakky Bankong-Obi host International Women’s Day poetry reading

To mark International Women’s Day 2025, Moremi Review is bringing together an exciting lineup of poets from across Africa for a special virtual reading celebrating women’s voices and literary excellence. The event, taking place on Saturday, March 8, 2025 from 5pm to 7pm (UTC+1) via Google Meet, will be hosted by acclaimed Nigerian poet Jakky ...

A Dream About My Grandfather’s Masquerade In Which It Dances From A Holographic Projection At The Museum Of The Future, Dubai

A Dream About My Grandfather’s Masquerade In Which It Dances From A Holographic Projection At The Museum Of The Future, Dubai

By Michael Okafor If you had watched with me,you would’ve seen it too:7-ft river of light pouringfrom behind the throat of a projector—the customary emergence of a godfrom an anthill—refracted lightpointed towards empty space. The pixelated brilliance of cowriesupholstering its body, ankle bellsbreaking into a choir of birds.I translate the Nsibidi on its back—mispronouncing father ...

Phoenix

Phoenix

By Olayioye Paul Bamidele A theory goes: the dead, like the Rose of Jericho, know a thing about regermination. Say, water bears breathing in the soil. Say the flute songs in the bones of patriots. Healing bubbles the way harmattan breeze trifles. All you need to do is gift yourself to season & watch your ...

Libation

Libation

By Blessing Omeiza OjoTo ride tandem on a world built on revolution, our ancestorsmust first unlimber in their graves, & our gods must declinered things, like blood — that of my brothers, of the innocent birds,of lambs — like palm fluid. Listen, there’s a joy outsidefrom the embrace of water. Here, bodies unclutter into a ...

The Hymn We Need is The Pure God of Madness

The Hymn We Need is The Pure God of Madness

By Osahon Oka The modern age has partitioned the skyinto insurmountable edges, borders that hum in their aloof country with our secrets.Roads sleep like a dazed animal, thunderstruck by the constant fragile hurtling, the screaming metal god.Heaps of gravel and grime gleam with the hope of gems, their light as feverish as the prayer we ...

Like a comet on a horizon

Like a comet on a horizon

By Michael Amos Imona Beneath Niger’s twilight, I roam throughveiled horizons. My lens, a witness to dusk’squiet descent; a silent pilgrimage where shadowsblur, and she—my imagined divinity—breathes. Her gaze is the night’s lust for light; an unchartedriver swollen with ache, pulling me beneaththe pulse of daylight, where I— bound to glassand aperture, seek her form ...

Love Abecedarian

Love Abecedarian

By Clement Abayomi Ache begins at the denouement of love. Today, theBleak sky mirrors the gracelessness of my ashen eyes.Coffee tomorrow is the taste of a blood-soaked bile, & myDay-long dreams yearn to liquefy like sugar in hot oil.Eyes, glittering in all its grace without grazing me,For how long will you hold me in your ...

Transcendence

Transcendence

By Emmanuel Somtochukwu FerdinandAt the door leading into Badagry Museum, I was stirred by the somberness of the black air. Every whoosh of the wind was the lamentation of the dead. All the ghosts that had travelled through past events welcomed me, their necks adorned with clusters of rusty chains as pendants. They seized my wrists, ...

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