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    Issue II — A Note from the Publishers

    December 23, 2025

    Yes, It Is Obscene, Ms Adichie, But… – Dami Ajayi

    July 21, 2021
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    Tunnel Vision — Molara Wood

    June 28, 2026
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    Motherhood is Discipleship — Nnamdi Ehirim

    December 23, 2025

    Of Home and Other Places We Claim — Adeola Opeyemi

    November 23, 2021
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    A Fool’s Errand: Deconstructing Brymo’s Shaitan — Adeola Juwon

    March 7, 2026
    In Moving Music Stein Leaves Self for Last

    In Moving Music, Stein Leaves Self for Last – Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì

    December 23, 2025

    5iving Motivational: A Review of Five by Alhanislam — Ancci

    December 23, 2025
  • Poems

    Three Poems — Clifton Gachagua

    January 28, 2026
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    A Poem — ‘Níran Òkéwo̩lé

    December 23, 2025
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    A Poem — Adebimpe Adeyemi

    December 23, 2025
  • Agbaman

    Three Poems — Clifton Gachagua

    January 28, 2026
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    A Poem — ‘Níran Òkéwo̩lé

    December 23, 2025
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    A Poem — Adebimpe Adeyemi

    December 23, 2025
  • Reviews

    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

    Spectacle Over Substance: A Review of Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey — ‘Ṣẹgun Ọdẹjimi

    December 23, 2025
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  • 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.

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

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    I. On December 20, 2025, Brymo announced the title of his upcoming album to mild controversy—something he has become synonymous with in the last couple of years, even more than

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

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      Tochi Eze’s This Kind of Trouble holds your palm in a warm but firm grip from its first chapter, and by the last, the heat from its embrace of

  • Three Poems — Clifton Gachagua

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    Photo by Musa Ortaç on Unsplash the last mangoes of the season so, here we are again, and not for the first time, Jolly Detta, another end of year and

  • Issue II — A Note from the Publishers

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    Dear Reader, It has been two years since you last heard from us. This silence was not intentional. The exigencies of living abroad have meant that Yaba Left Review has

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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Motherhood is Discipleship — Nnamdi Ehirim

December 23, 2025
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A Poem — Adebimpe Adeyemi

December 23, 2025
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Three Poems — Ismail Bala

December 23, 2025
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A Poem — ‘Níran Òkéwo̩lé

December 23, 2025
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