What is happening to Igbo language and cultures and traditional religion? Do we allow it to go into extinction? Do we allow that as a nation? Everywhere is smelling white men, yes, everywhere!
RED RIVER by Efe Ogufere
God, If thou be at all Be a blade Cut through it This cape of injustice Sober indifference Let it flow Blood- Trickle into the earth Threaten to form a...
DIBIA’S WALKING WITH SHADOWS DARES TO SYMPATHETICALLY ADDRESS HOMOSEXUALITY IN AFRICA a review by Eugene Yakubu
TITLE: WALKING WITH SHADOWS AUTHOR: JUDE DIBIA GENRE: PROSE FICTION NUMBER OF PAGES: 216 PUBLISHER: Lulu.com DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2016 ISBN: 141161934X (10), 978-1411619340 (13) REVIEWER: Eugene Yakubu Controversial novel...
EPIDERMIS by Efe Ogufere
Beneath your skin, Dark and lovely connubial vials Hold ancient songs buried in liquid deep A serenade in the Serengeti A sunrise on distant hills Shedding light on black and...
THE THING WITH INTERPRETERS (an essay by Oludipe Oyin Samuel)
[caption id="attachment_6568" align="aligncenter" width="453"] #WRRPoetryVerseSurgery[/caption] Many things are allowed in the ‘most contemporary’ Nigerian literature, even psycho-imaginative meningioma; proclaim the very art of purposeful nationalist writing— countryside lyricals, activist poems...
IF BLACK… by by Lebile Melt Tosin
if the black doesn't forgive there would be war forever if we don’t forget blood would paste our road if the black don't believe to build faith admits molestation if...
MOREMI by Samuel Amazing Ayoade
empty gourds of palmwine clanging at the palace gates though I have not seen a drunk King Akogun! We have lost the battle again where are the men of war?...
SONS OF ALÁGBÈDE by Biodun Alabi
We shall rise on this day To dance on this clay For we shall proceed to Àgbède shed And stop all ìfonáfonsu Let the women converge at the square Let...
AKONI’BIRIN by Efe Ogufere
She grips with broken lips In the full glare of blackened eyes Clumsy gait of sheltered pain Celebrated as amazing grace She is Oya deep beneath For the sake of...
DANCE STEPS by Teslim Omipidan
Her hips swayed rhythmically to the tempo of the mystical Bàtá beaten with the hands of antiquity at the village square. Elders nodded in accordance, onlookers cheered in glee while...