It is this faithfulness to the African tongue that sets Ngugi apart from his bourgeois peers like Wole Soyinka.

Everyone is fighting for relevance in a world of irrelevance. We let so many die of hunger and thirst today, so we may fill our bellies with wine and steak tomorrow.

A poem by U.A Edwardson on Africa

I guess that there were others on this train who have spoken little more than a few words in their lives to people who look like me.

A poem by Yvonne Nezianya

In one story, a woman walks into a river to drown. In another one, a man leaves his partner, goes back to the village to a home that had stopped being home, and becomes mad. It’s all fear and flight.

It was in actively becoming involved with the feminist movement that I began to really see the many misconceptions of the movement that people had.

Short Story | Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema | Nigeria

Poem by Abuoya Eruot

A woman’s reflective letter to herself

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Short story by Damilola Olagunju

Fictional verses and short stories centred on everyday life in Lagos, Nigeria.

There was no guilt, no remorse, even more curiously, no sense of loss.

Poetry by Praise Osawaru