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HOW MANY TIMES PERSON GO DEY BEG GOD?

Fiction by Denoo Edinam Yawo My date was rubbing his penis in slow strokes. We were seated at the back of… ‘restaurant’ isn’t quite fitting for what this place is. A joint, maybe? Yes. A joint. We were seated at the back of his favourite joint—Amenuveve Pork Palace—hidden by the...

August 18, 2026

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LAGOS NOIR: A STUDY IN ENTROPY

Non-Fiction by drc. Jaèy I. The Initial State (low entropy) [Date: Tuesday. The power is out again.] The needle doesn’t just drop; it drags. It scrapes across the vinyl of my memory like a fingernail across a chalkboard. Brymo’s Entropy isn’t a song you simply listen to; it’s an environment...

August 11, 2026

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CANTATA: MIGRATION SEQUENCE 1

& other poems by Afia Ansong I turn every visit to the country into a song I sing of my grandmother's hometown I sing and climb to Aburi mountains I tell my friends the foreigners about the titles my grandmother held, she is Nana no longer but should we destool...

August 4, 2026

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TAPE LETTERS

Fiction by Claudia Owusu She stirred awake in the middle of the night, this time not because of rainstorms or a neighbor’s quarrel; but because of her own muggy sweat, and a dampness in the room that made her claw for a body by her bed side—an indent of the...

July 28, 2026

AMEN

Poetry by Eileen Gbagbo On a 5 minute voice note on Whatsapp My father is praying for me Blessings, holy fire on my enemies – I miss the beat to say [ ] Jehovah...

July 21, 2026