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Reaching out my tainted hands Empty of purity Discord, my identity Eclipsed by the world and ‘of the World’, Mundane… my priority. Prints of destruction Taking a toll on my soul In all of this, [...]

Aching bones and fading goals Fainting knees and weeping lips Forms, overburdened by affliction’s kiss And we laid still, like a silent wind. Then, In all honor and humility notwithstanding His [...]

The world, comes to us in the form of a balloon, we, go to it dressed like cacti, and wail, about the noise it makes when it bursts upon us, We long to be redeemed. “Touch me. Hold me,” we say to [...]

“Redemption is the pathway that is trailed by perpetual light. -Thompson Emate   Freedom from the night Walking towards the light Darkness seeks for the escaped souls It’s like running on [...]

I spent my life in a haze, a suspended animation With every breath taking me farther from the surface And every sigh pulling me deeper into the void.   I never had grand ambitions, nor did I [...]

That week was abnormal in many ways. For one, the sun feared opening its eyes; any time it tried to peep, fog forced it back. One could not tell whether the fog was man-made or natural. For [...]

The early morning sky brooded at 3am and Ojotule’s heart was a beehive of activities. For 30 years, she had wallowed in confusion, anger, and now a deep-seated sadness; weariness that nothing [...]

Her life was a series of shadows, each one cast by a regret too deep to forget. The mistake she made years ago clung to her like a relentless specter, whispering in her ear, draining the color [...]

Lately, memories from my childhood have been surfacing, like fragments of a forgotten dream. One late afternoon stands out vividly. I had gone to buy Baba Dudu from a Hausa man’s kiosk, drawn [...]

My grandparents married in August 1950. They had a small civil ceremony in London, where they were living at the time as my grandfather was specializing in paediatrics. My grandmother had been [...]