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That particular Sallah morning at Bagwai was the coldest I had ever experienced. The chill of the harmattan wind made it feel like something, or someone was being avenged upon us. The previous [...]

Today, East Ridge High’s senior and junior students are about to engage in a football showdown. They have been preparing for this event since the start of the term, and it is their last match as [...]

The allure of forbidden love is captivating and intoxicating, weaving its enchantment until complete immersion is inevitable. Such was the fate of Oyin as she stealthily ventured out of her home [...]

A colossal, ominous cloud loomed above Duka village. A foreboding presence that sent shivers down the spines of its inhabitants. Flashes of lightning danced within its depths, and its eerie hum [...]

I am like a stranger, relegated to the background in my home as I watch the festival preparations from my vantage point on my late father’s balcony. Women crowded in groups around several fires, [...]

The bee man removes bees at night when they’re home from foraging. Dark is a hive filled with sleeping bees, carried unawares through the streets, as bats’ echoes locate between trees, and [...]

Their hunch-backed, pot-bellied forms slither across the brown grass The village elders stealthily approaching my father’s yard at his behest A pack of indolent sly foxes, ready to harvest where [...]

Like seasons holding time, like branches collecting leaves, I’ve called you here like shadows where darkness teases lights, I’ve called you here like vultures where mortis defeats life, I’ve [...]

We gathered behind the herd of calves, Separated from their mothers. The green grass licked with dewy leaves Our skins. Thick stripes of dew dripped down My legs, I mused several mornings [...]

Layard, Cuckoo, Quelea’s Widows You treacherous thief at the tip of tails and twigs, twisting thy thorny troubling fangs; a feast. A nest’s cling wails with the wind. Yet yesterday, at the far [...]