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RADIO BODIES

Radio bodies & other poems by John Chinaka Onyeche Radio Bodies So many such nights, I am bent like a key. The child is a porcelain egg in the hands of a clock. The realities of home are built from sugar before the jawline of the sea; the coming of...

June 9, 2026

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ASANKA

Fiction by Benjamin Cyril Arthur The music is everywhere today. It leaks through the wooden louvers, bounces off the concrete walls, settles into my pores like nkuto. Daddy Lumba’s voice, smooth as pito, sweet as sugarcane, croons about love and longing. The boys call it burger highlife. Music from Ghanaians...

June 2, 2026

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IN FRONT OF THE CASTLE

Poetry by Nenyi Ato Bentum Skits of souls surround a fetish hut Each scene tells the depth of the cut This was not a green Greek TRAGEDY Those who came here never returned Those who returned never came here Ferried fathers, aborted abductors; Sinful sorcerers, paid pawns, Wayside wanderers, jilted...

December 22, 2023

TEACH THIS TO OUR CHILDREN

Poetry by Favour Orlando When the umbilical cords that attached us to our mothers were excised, The crafted words of our people, of our land, defined us, Not the high-pitched voice of colonialism, Or its firm iron fist pressed on our rigid backs While we laboured under the vibrant sun....

December 20, 2023

THE GREY AREAS

Fiction by Ufuoma Bakporhe There were many things I knew about being a biracial woman living in Nigeria. Growing up, I heard many things about how I was prone to better opportunities, or how I was more special than ‘regular’ Nigerian kids who did not have a foreign parent, but...

December 18, 2023