Women's Day Series: Cenzontle/Mockingbird
“Goddess” © CCBenji Cenzontle*/Mockingbird by Daniel García Ordaz “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to…
“Waters in a Broken Pot” by James Onyebụchi Nnaji
image source: pixabay.com Waters in a Broken Pot My only pot broke on the way to the stream And smashed…
“we left when home became a portrait of pain” by Sodiq Oyekanmi
Image by Jerry A from Pixabay we left when home became a portrait of pain. (after Razaq Malik Gbolahan, No…
Indices of Identity: A Critical Take on Abu Amira’s “The Swahilification of Mutembei
Abu Amira’s “The swahilification of Mutembei” captures the episodes of becoming in the life of Mutembei. The unknown narrator, does…
Jim Wyoming: Three Poems
Photo by Jonathan Knepper on Unsplash Now, more than ever… I am absorbed in the white of snow and the…
Journal Stories 04: Carl Terver – A Backward Suburb
Photo credit: Oko Owi Ocho 7th Dec. 2014 1. A backward suburb is one that makes you feel you wake…
Self-Idolatry, or What Made Ngugi’s Story Most Translated?
Self-Idolatry, or What Made Ngugi’s Story Most Translated? By Alexander K. Opicho There have been ground-shaking African literary events in…
“Coming Together” by Lynn White
image source: pixabay.com Coming Together It was your idea to take shelter here, warm and dry you said and we…
“MAY WE CHEER TO SILENCE?!” by Nnamdi Laura Chioma
image source: pxhere.com MAY WE CHEER TO SILENCE?! Do you speak silence? Then drown me in your embrace Me, you,…
“Mourn” by Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo
Image by Samantha Eagleson from Pixabay Mourn Mourn the roses, a red cup full of blood, Mourn the bees, a…