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Behind the smile! Is a woman that fought battles, stabbed in the back, undergone so many pains, betrayed by friends and loved ones, been through worst situations, fallen countless times, tasted [...]

All creatures in the thick forest Bow to pay homage to the little Creature that shakes the wood. Daringly sparking the atmosphere Enthusiastically with a hum-hum tone. Father! My soul lingers in [...]

‘Ẹ káàrọ̀ everyone. Welcome to this presentation on the Benin Robots.’ Ọlánrewájú took a big breath as she centred herself on the podium surveying the 2,000-strong crowd gathered at the Ẹdo [...]

Ross laid on his bed staring at the ceiling, when his curtains automatically opened, ushering sunlight into his bedroom.  For the first time in many moons, he noticed the beauty and warmth of the [...]

Mother’s museum is where old calabashes sleep beside earthenwares and artefacts: of the smell of locust beans, of embers glowing sanguine, of firewood growing up into little pyres, of smoke [...]

Am I a stone, Easily forgetting the rhythm of your feet, the comfort of your scent the glimpse of your smile, the warmth of your hands the beauty of your presence? Am I a stone, only longing when [...]

Every time daddy issued her flowers, It wasn’t the sweet scent that kept her waiting. It was her waiting for the slightest sound of his voice, His noisy throat clearing And his deep voice that [...]

Many travelled far to see him like the great Ogotemmeli of Dogon he was a towering library of tales and like Akuku Danger of the East he was the patriarch of a vast clan children milled around [...]

This volume of twenty-two spiritual poems explores the agony of a wicked man’s sincere search to understand the imponderable abstractions of existence when God has not answered his cries and [...]

The African literary community is rejoicing as Malawian writer Temwani Mgunda, the esteemed winner of the 2022 African Writers Award in Poetry, is now set to embark on a transformative residency [...]