Nigeria

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…

'In Another Country' was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. When Father Marin says, 'The Mass is ended,…

Memorabilia It is raining everyday in Douala // the temperature is peaking // today is not a good day to…

living in testing times. most testing times in one hundred years. pandemic sweeping through our world will wipe clean pages…