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Yaba Left Review Issue One

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Issue 1

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  • December 27, 2022
The first issue of Yaba Left Review has taken its sweet time to arrive. In a sense, its appearance around the holiday season was partly intentional and aspirational. We intended to kill the tentativeness and tap-dancing around the launching date.
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Two Poems – Ron Riekki

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  • December 27, 2022
My Roommate Translated during Just Cause—lying on his bed, the darkness, telling me he had to talk, and I said to talk then and the crickets were gone and the…
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Two Poems – Olumide Manuel

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  • December 27, 2022
20.10.20 there are no rules except those against protests. the silence came for us before the bullets. every wound devours itself.  dark green molds in the lips culturing a system…
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Two Poems – Bruce McRae

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  • December 27, 2022
Cry Timber The arborist has gone quite mad. For every tree felled another woodland grows. He saws and saws, and there is no end to his sawing. The mills are…
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Three Poems – Chisom Okafor

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  • December 27, 2022
A piercing through the dark In the face of darkness, this secluded space is a pathology likewise to live alone in it. My heart keeps failing in bits, as the…
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Two Poems – Roseline Anya Okorie

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  • December 27, 2022
Roots Love grows in the evening  Dies at dawn    There is not enough prophecy about hearts How it can become vapor                          Fighting for space in the sky There are many…
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Barren – Maura Way

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  • December 27, 2022
  Tonight, eat nuts, watermelon, and  pomegranate with me. I want to feel  them on the tongue of the longest  day. I will read Hafez to find out  what will…
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The Mad Professor – Nicholas Rono

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  • December 27, 2022
Schools of thoughts,Pure liquid children of the mind,Behind glasses, pupils dilate as behind desks, students relax,Schooled beyond his sixty-some years,Grey hair all over his headHe calls it the exiled grey…
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Boloom Road – Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí

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  • December 27, 2022
We stripped on the long walk. As if in a frenzy, we unbuttoned our school uniforms, undid our shorts zippers, and began pulling them off halfway to the Boloom. We…
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Long Live the Queen – Hassan Kassim

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  • December 27, 2022
We have these walks, Abdelfatah and I. Began once a week, became once in 6 months, and lately, exceedingly infrequent as our days become more governed by routine—their onslaught more…
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