POETRY
July 7, 2025 | Ivan de Monbrison
замечательно, she says, which means remarkable, in Russian. Once the painting had been completed, it was hung upside...
Two Poems | Oluwanifemi Bakare
Cover Image by Nsikan Abasi When I Said I Was a Mirror, You Said Clean Yourself First dear...
Passages – mk zariel
Cover Image: Nsikan Abasi i used to tell people i was gay, and nowi just walk out the...
The Melting Clock – Claudia Wysocky
Cover: Faith NK takemedowntothe sea, i said,the one that smells like love and sex and broken things.he took...
Loneliness – Sarah Adeyemo
There’s never a perfect time to fall in love.—Jide Badmus The sweltering sun peers at mewhile I pluck...
Waterbody & Naked – Olusoji Obebe
Cover Image: Faith NK Waterbody i am too easy. *soft enough to offer life. soft enough to lose...
FICTION
Alkaline Water – Udochukwu Chidera
If I were asked when it all started, I would say it was the night after she had...
I Will Remember Your Name – Mayor Prosper Ihechi
Because the seers follow you across lifetimes. I am dreaming, and in my dream, we are together again,...
Petrichor
Petrichor. That’s the word he used—the one he called the scent you said you perceived outside. The scent...
Drowning Myself – Haliru Ali Musa
This is my seventh day in the shower, attempting to wash away the sorrows of losing my lover....
Domestic Accident – Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi
Chizitere Madeleine Nwaemesi is a Nigerian writer whose works have been published by Isele Magazine, African Writer Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review...
Venn Diagram – Abasi-maenyin Esebre
It wasn’t there. When Victor Akan cut through the small passage just behind his rented apartment and greeted...
NON-FICTION
The Ways I Tried to Die – Ruth Sum Titus
Cover Image: Faith NK Suicide isn’t always a rope or a bottle of pills. It isn’t always blood...
Pre-Internship Tales – Adejumo Odiname
HOME-COMING I remember leaving school that Saturday morning with this feeling of excitement in me. Everything that morning...
The Cost of Innocence | Hamida Muaddi
As children, we believed in sameness. Sameness in situations, in how people behaved, thought and acted. Occasionally, we’d...
Notes on the Pleasures and Perils of Measuring—And How I Renewed my Measures | Mandira Pattnaik
They say you can’t be a writer unless you have led many lives. I was a seamstress once,...
On Balconies | David Margolin
If a man’s home is his castle, his balcony is his throne. In theory, the royal inhabitant rests...
On Motherhood At Nineteen -Anne Etosudo
I’m not a real mother, at least not in the way you’re thinking. While I’m biologically related to...
FEATURED
Identity is Too Complex To be Boxed In – Adedoyin Ajayi
In “The Shape of Water,” forthcoming on Akpata Magazine, Doyin Ajayi crafts a haunting exploration of identity, bodily...
Editing Poetry Has Matured my own Poetry – Jakky Bankong-Obi
Jakky Bankong-Obi writes, edits, curates, and mentors with an energy that feels both grounded and daring. From her...
What I Fear More Than a Blank Page Is Not Bleeding at All – CP Nwankwo
CP Nwankwo writes in the spaces between memory, body, and desire, crafting poems that are both intimate and...
Ngugi Wa Thiongo: A Legacy of Liberation and Misogyny – Nnamdi Precious
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is dead. And with his death, the global literary community has erupted into a chorus...
“Ogba is Home. Pidgin is Survival. English is an Intruder”: Chimezie Okoro on Language, Power, and the Fight to Live
Chimezie Okoro’s “Hospital Is Too Far” uses language to explore survival, power, and the unseen struggles of Nigeria’s...
Gardens of Grief: Cynthia Nnenna Nnadi on Trauma, Truth, and the Unseen in Storytelling
Nnadi Cynthia invites us into the intimate spaces of ordinary life, where profound beauty often resides in the...
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