Nigeria

Akure, Nigeria, 1999 January: My new guardian was a performer of miracles. A pastor whose anointed touch could heal sicknesses.…

We were girls once. The girls you once saw hawking on the streets of Arewa—selling awara, wainan rogo, dan wake…

In an overcrowded family home governed by an unseen god, a young girl comes of age under rigid rules, until…

This work of fiction includes graphic depictions of sexual violence that some readers may find distressing.   When the mothers…

Perhaps the thing that makes us powerful  is also the thing that makes us invisible.     The body, a house…

birthdays are usually private parties   where my mother empties her whole heart     one of the few occasions she cries …

Nothing to read here: just the truth         of a man living in a world desperate   to misunderstand him. When I told Hassan  …

Before the posters arrived, word had reached us about a new football academy coming to town. Celestine’s father brought the…

No one knows why people started to turn into trees, but everyone remembers the first. It was a baby in…

March 2021 Hi. My name is Ijeoma, and this is the story of my life. Or, I guess I should…

‘Lifestyle Guide for The Discerning Witch’ was shortlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   You will be your…

Like a Candlelight Struggling Against a Soft Breeze The name of the shop is Yori Yori Beauty Palace. I often…

Today makes it one year; one year since we went out, raised our painted signs, waved our flags, believing with…

‘A for Abortion’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   I walk into the tiny living room…

‘Ogbuefi’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   When Papa returns home in the evening, I am…