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The strong tides of life have swept me off my feet, Now I am drowned in the ocean of misery life has dumped me in, A fog of hopelessness clouds my face, My heart has become heavy like a [...]

We are the seedlings of both worlds Beaten by paltry rain and golden sun. We have seen the hyenas Squeaking afar, mocking our first fruits And throwing the seeds on our faces. We have seen our [...]

Slowly, at dusk, the curtains are drawn The show for the day is over Now the mask can be taken off Softly, in the dark, the girl in me cries Reminding my adult body of how hollow she feels Of how [...]

You know what I see when I try to recall you? It’s not the gaping maw that was your mouth as you lay on the dusty road. Not your necklace of blood, not the bits of flesh clinging to the hot sand, [...]

We answer to a sound that belongs to us alone. It is more than letters joined together. It is a fabric of who we are.   This poem was published in the 14th Issue of PoeticAfrica magazine. [...]

Now that you have decided where you want to publish your content, it is important for you to set your pace. I have heard of people posting three times a day on Instagram, twice a week on YouTube, [...]

“Adulthood na scam” — Ladé. Again, I walk down this path of nunu milk and fresh ofios. I miss those days when life was nothing but a swarm of fireflies and brown grasshoppers. We used to be [...]

…for dad… I had that same dream again. Not the one where the owls whisper caution to the baobab tree or where the shrew tells the rat of the melody darkness makes of threat. It’s the dream where [...]

Every creak of the door and stamp on the floor raises my eyebrows and opens my windows. If I had one last wish and my heart one more beat, you’d be the air I’d wish and be the cause of the beat. [...]

If you thought you wouldn’t miss your grown-up daughter when she left for the mandatory NYSC service, you were wrong. Laide was a computer geek who didn’t care if everyone had a proper meal at [...]