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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 [...]

Evidence of a passage Threatened as a girl age Never to be attributed to the faceless Lest its essence becomes baseless As the ripples of the sea is felt And the rain drizzle as droplet So does [...]

Every shimmering gold ignites amidst searing flames so let my pleasures burn to ashes while chiselling these shards of dreams into a masterpiece today, tomorrow and the day after until I [...]

“Wen, wen”, the baby cried out again. It’s 3:00 am in the morning and she had not closed her eyes for a second. She had fed him, cooed him and even sang for him but he won’t stop crying. The [...]