COMING OF AGE

Non-Fiction by Adjeiwaa A-Adem Those first few years are but a blur. Your every need provided, your every wish their command. Everyone coos over you, and while you may do things wrong a lot of the time, no one holds it against you. When you're sad, everyone wants to know why....

Riding with the Witches

Non-Fiction by Augustine Onyechi Riding with the Witches – Augustine Onyechi I grab my phone and type out the words “sleep paralysis” on the Google search bar. I have recurring dreams that feel like a real-life, physical struggle with demons. I’m trawling the internet for an explanation for this phenomenon...

Adult Ward

Non-Fiction by Ernestina Edem Azah Adult Ward. 1 As I walk to work I meet a lot of children. They have created a stream of green and white on the main road to the clinic. They have closed from school and are making their way home. Their noisy chatter and...

Care is a New Cool: Arts, Politics & Empathy in an Another Accra

Non-Fiction by Kobina Ankomah-Graham A Tale of a Few Cities Visitors to Accra might think they are simply visiting Ghana’s capital city when, in fact, they are visiting several: myriad realities occupying a single space and time. Party Accra emerges from Holy Accra’s ranks the moment the latter is done...

The Bed-table

Non-Fiction by Nikitta Adjirakor It begins with your back inching further up the bed that is inexplicably called a table. The examination table. The bed-table. There you are half naked, shivering, tense and staring fearfully at the doctor as he approaches you. His hands are cold, startlingly, like the metal...