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  • Three Poems — Ismail Bala

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    “pine block” by Brian Stocks, CC BY-ND 2.0   Unreliable Watch (after Karin Gottshall)   “The pieces of the clock lie scattered” —Charles Simic   What if I unclasped you,

  • Beyond Syncretism: King Sunny Ade and the Architecture of Belief — Jide Taiwo

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    King Sunny Ade — City People Magazine   A small but telling detail of King Sunny Ade’s life often gets overlooked, and he touches on it briefly in the opening

  • On Seeing the Freedom of Unorthodoxy — Dami Ajayi in Conversation with John Eriomala

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      John Eriomala is the hardest working music journalist in Nigeria. He came on my radar about four years ago. I posted a request on Twitter (now X) seeking five

  • Individual Poems: A Review of 2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase — Ancci

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    2000 Blacks by the Nigerian poet Ajibola Tolase is a typical debut collection of poems. Typical of books I have read recently, the collection opens with an abecedarian as its

  • Tunnel Vision — Molara Wood

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    "tree tunnel" by rambla is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.     “Nothing says ‘developing country’ like getting off an international flight at Murtala Muhammed,” Farah said, coming out of her sister’s embrace.

Three Poems — Ismail Bala

September 25, 2026

Beyond Syncretism: King Sunny Ade and the Architecture of Belief — Jide Taiwo

September 22, 2026

On Seeing the Freedom of Unorthodoxy — Dami Ajayi in Conversation with John Eriomala

September 20, 2026

Individual Poems: A Review of 2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase — Ancci

August 23, 2026

Tunnel Vision — Molara Wood

June 28, 2026

A Fool’s Errand: Deconstructing Brymo’s Shaitan — Adeola Juwon

March 7, 2026

Where Science and Superstition Meet: The Dichotomy of Tochi Eze’s This Kind of Trouble — Tobi Adebowale

February 21, 2026

Three Poems — Clifton Gachagua

January 28, 2026
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Issue II — A Note from the Publishers

December 23, 2025
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